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Bicycle Seats at the Library
Spotted this example of bicycle-related micro-design at our local library today. Carts for use in the library equipped with bicycle seats. Prams in Copenhagen are like SUVs and too many of them in the...
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The Choreography of an Urban Intersection - Part One: On Bicycles & Behavior
“Think of a city and what comes to mind? Its streets”. The oft-quoted words of Jane Jacobs from her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities ring true even in 2013. Throughout time, there have...
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The Choreography of an Urban Intersection - Part Two: Numbers Speak Louder...
If you’re just tuning in, this series is dedicated to sharing a snippet of the main findings of our report entitled, “The Bicycle Choreography of an Urban Intersection—an anthropological study”. At the...
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The Choreography of an Urban Intersection - Part Three: Copenhagenize Fixes
This is where we believe it all comes together. As the previous two installments in this series have demonstrated, Copenhagenize Design Co. is unveiling a document to help analyse the intracacies at...
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The Choreography of an Urban Intersection - Part Four: The Big Reveal
Without further ado, the unveiling of our newest report: "The Bicycle Choreography of an Urban Intersection: an Anthropological Study".Read it here and let us know what you think.For summaries of some...
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CycleLogistics: Flooding EU Cities with Cargo Bike Goodness
When listening to presentations at this year's Velo City Conference in Vienna, Austria about various city's newly unveiled bicycle strategies, it was easy to see which will be most user-friendly and...
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Air Pollution is Not on Political Agenda in Denmark
"Good advice for avoiding air pollution from Danish Broadcasting."The news in Copenhagen this morning is all about air pollution. A new study once again exposes political ineptitude and lack of...
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Pedals, Punctuation
Queen Louise's Bridge / Dronning Louises Bro - CopenhagenI'll have the pleasure of teaching at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in the fall, on a course run by my colleague and urban...
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The Missing Link: Bremerholm and One-Way Streets
Earlier this year, Mary Hudson Embry wrote about the cycle track addition on Gothersgade. Another "missing link" in the Inner City's bicycle network was just completed, this time on Bremerholm: a small...
View ArticleWhat if Car Commercials Reflected Reality?
It's no secret that car commercials are, by and large, fiction. Shiny cars roaring along empty streets devoid of traffic jams or scarring their way through impressive landscapes. Selling the dream....
View ArticleEpisode 01 - The Big Picture - Top 10 Design Elements in Copenhagen's Bicycle...
At Copenhagenize Design Co. we have the pleasure of having Ivan Conte interning for us for six months. Ivan is from Italy and he is working on his thesis whilst working with us. Ivan is producing a...
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Richard's Not-so-Scarry Car Culture
I explore in my most recent TEDx Talk how the paradigm shifted. How our perception of streets changed from being accepted as a human, democratic space for 7000 years to becoming perceived as the sole...
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Ten Things Copenhagen Cyclists Say
(Note: Kristen Maddox was an intern for Copenhagenize Design Co. and was quickly elevated to the status of Legendary Interns in the company. She is sorely missed here at our offices.)Danny Kaye made...
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“Why didn’t you get out of my way?”
(This piece was written for and intended to be posted here at copenhagenize.com, but actually ended up being published on Streetsblog Los Angeles at la.streetsblog.org earlier today so as to be on...
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Lulu and the Life-Sized City
Some of you may remember the article about The World's Youngest Urbanist - Lulu-Sophia - a couple of years back. Since then, Lulu-Sophia continues to fire off brilliant, simple and rational...
View ArticleEpisode 02 - The Green Wave - Top 10 Design Elements in Copenhagen's Bicycle...
Here we are with Episode 02 in our series about what design elements it takes to make Copenhagen a bicycle-friendly city.Pedro Madruga, Environmental Engineer at Copenhagenize Design Co., talks about...
View ArticleEpisode 03 - Intermodality - Top 10 Design Elements in Copenhagen's Bicycle...
Here in Episode 03 of our series produced by über intern Ivan Conte we explore how Intermodality is a key to Copenhagen's success as a bicycle-friendly city.You should be able to have your bicycle with...
View ArticleEpisode 04 - Safety Details - Top 10 Design Elements in Copenhagen's Bicycle...
Here you go. Episode 04 in our series about the Top 10 design elements that make Copenhagen a bicycle friendly city.FILM SERIES: TOP TEN DESIGN ELEMENTS IN BICYCLE-FRIENDLY COPENHAGEN- EPISODE 01 - THE...
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Bicycle Freedom in Toronto 1910
Found this photo in a book at the Texada Island Library book sale yesterday. Even in 1910, the bicycle offered a fantastic mobility option for the citizens battling with sub-standard public transport....
View ArticleEpisode 05 - Nørrebrogade - Top 10 Design Elements in Copenhagen's Bicycle...
In Episode 05 we highlight what really is the greatest project of the past decade in Copenhagen. The retrofitting of the street Nørrebrogade.FILM SERIES: TOP TEN DESIGN ELEMENTS IN BICYCLE-FRIENDLY...
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