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Cargo Bike Parking Design - The Copenhagenize Bar by Cyclehoop

In early 2013, Copenhagenize Design Company developed a design for on-street cargo bike parking that creates space and accessibility for citizens that use cargo bikes on a daily basis. Who else would...

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Copenhagenize Reviews the Agenda for the Next Mayor of Paris

The current mayor of Paris – Bertrand Delanoë – is a living liveable city legend. While at the reins of the city for two terms, he has transformed the French capital in so many positive ways.You have...

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Car Industry Strikes Back - Nissan Denmark

If you've been following our Car Industry Strikes Back series over the past few years, you'll have seen car companies ridiculing other transport forms or lathering themselves up in a greenwashing...

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Copenhagenize Design Co. Moves Office by Cargo Bike

Last week, Copenhagenize Design Company moved from our old office in Frederiksberg, down to the harbour area of Copenhagen. Our new home is Papirøen, or 'Paper Island,' an artificial island just across...

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100 Cargo Bikes in Boulogne-Billancourt

Photes via: Michel & AugustinWe kick off another great year for cargo bikes with wonderful news from France. The City of Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, is launching a project called 100...

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Where Do You Want to Go?

Things are changing, no doubt about it. All over the world. Like in every paradigm shift there are cities that move fast, cities that try to play catch up and cities that are still tying their...

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The Map Bicycle

Tourist season is starting. I thought it would be nice to be prepared for when they stop me and ask for directions. So I glued a Crumpled City map onto the Bullitt. The Crumpled City maps are rip-proof...

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The Bike Share Bicycle Copenhagen ALMOST Had

While La Rochelle, France can boast about having started the first proper bike share system in the mid-1970s, Copenhagen introduced the Bycyklen - City Bike - in 1995. Picture above and below, the...

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To Live and Play in L.A.

Somebody call the L.A.P.D.!  (photo by ubrayj02)Whenever I come across another indication of how addicted to the automobile that the city I find myself in (Los Angeles) is due to actual written law or...

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Bicycle Design Archeology - Top Ten Details We Want Back

Copenhagenize's Top Ten Bicycle Design Details That We Want BackThere is an ocean of fantastic and practical design details from over a century of mainstream bicycle culture. However, many things that...

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Copenhagen Free Bike Rental

I'm Kieran, one of the 4 co-founders of Copenhagen Free Bike Rental. I've also been interning here at Copenhagenize Design Company for the past few months. At Copenhagen Free Bike Rental, our goal is...

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Bikes Beat Metro in Copenhagen

Like anyone interested in city life, we at Copenhagenize Design Co. like to keep our eyes on the street life of our city. Currently however, the City of Copenhagen is planning to take some away from...

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Copenhagen - Is Cycling Up or Down or What?

It's all so confusing. Numbers indicating rise and falls in cycling levels. Although perhaps not as much as we think. Firstly, back in 2009 I made a bet with anyone who would take it. Cycling levels in...

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The World's Best Behaved Cyclists are in Copenhagen

As I highlight in this TED x Zurich talk of mine about Bicycle Culture by Design, Copenhagen has the world's best behaved cyclists. Bar none. I've cycled in close to 100 cities around the world and...

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Films from Copenhagen in 1923, 1932, 1937, 1950s

Copenhagen. 1932. Thanks to @laxbikeguy (James) on Twitter for the link."Cyclists in hundreds - thousands (millions it seemed to our cameraman!) throng the City of Copenhagen."Wild how there was only...

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Bicycle-Friendly Cobblestones

Ole Kassow from Purpose Makers - and brainchild behind the Cycling Without Age movement - gave us this great shot from a street in the Østerbro neighbourhood of Copenhagen. The City has a new thing...

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The New Question for 21st Century Cities

It's all so simple if we want it to be. For almost a century we have been asking the same question in our cities."How many cars can we move down a street?"It's time to change the question. If you ask...

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Do Copenhagen Police Make it Up As They Go Along?

You know you live in a a car-centric city when it's not allowed for bicycle users to turn right on red. Despite the fact that it's legal in many European cities in France, Belgium and be tested in many...

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Norwegian Share the Road Campaign Films

"70% of cyclists have experienced aggressive behaviour from motorists. We tested the same behaviour in a supermarket."Text at end: "Cyclists and motorists have equal rights on the road"First, a huge...

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Copenhagenize's New Bike Racks from Veksø

We recently moved in our new offices on Paper Island (Papirøen) on the harbour in Copenhagen. A fantastic place to work, populated by wonderful, creative people.There was one little detail missing. You...

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