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Travelling Denmark on the Copenhagenize Bullitt
Copenhagenize über-intern, Dennis, rocking the BullittAt Copenhagenize Design Company we usually stick to urban bicycling, but some people, like our German intern, Dennis, like to take the bike...
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Explaining the Bi-directional Cycle Track Folly
If this was 2007, I'd expect some confusion and misinterpretation regarding Best Practice for bicycle infrastructure. It was a brave, new world back then. This blog was a lone voice in the wilderness...
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Bike-Train-Bike - Connecting Bicycles and Trains in Europe
Copenhagenize Design Co.'s team, all the partnersinvolved in BiTiBi - Bike-Train-Bike – and the European Commissionare glad to launch today our new EU project.BiTiBi is an EU-funded, three year project...
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Copenhageners Test-Drive The Bicycle Snake
The long-due first elevated cycle track of Copenhagen is not finished yet but already used and appreciated by bicycle users... and pedestrians.The new bicycle infrastructure named "the snake" is still...
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The Greatest Urban Experiment Right Now
Right this minute, right here in Copenhagen, what might be the greatest urban transport experiment in the world is well underway. It wasn't planned but it's working handsomely.Above is our simple...
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Innovative Elevated Cycle Track in Copenhagen
Bryggerampen - the new elevated cycle track in Copenhagen.UPDATE: 04 AUGUST 2014New Streetfilm about The Bicycle Snake!UPDATE: JUNE 16, 2014. IT'S ALMOST FINISHED!UPDATE: Now they're calling it...
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The Green Waves of Copenhagen
The City of Copenhagen established the first Green Wave for cyclists back in 2007 on Nørrebrogade and, since then, the concept has spread to other major arteries in the city. The idea is simple....
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Copy-Paste Copenhagenization in Ljubljana
I talk a lot about the Ljubljana. In conversations with journalists and in my keynotes around the world I highlight a simple move that boosted cycling dramatically in the Slovenian capital and that...
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Designing Bicycle Symbolism - Towards the Future
The Bicycle as a symbol of progress, of renewal, of promising times ahead. This is not a new concept. Indeed it has been around since the invention of the bicycle. Many bicycle posters at end of the...
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The Lulu and Neighbourhood Wayfinding
Quite out of the blue during dinner one evening, I asked my daughter, Lulu, aged 6 almost 7 (you may know her as the world's youngest urbanist...) if she thought she could find her way to the local...
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Comfort Testing The Cycle Tracks
A car blocking the bike lane/cycle track. The source of much irritation and many social media photos. This photo, however, is from Denmark and that is a car that we WANT driving down the cycle...
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Taking Matters into Our Own Hands - Nordre Frihavnsgade
Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Even in Copenhagen.There is a street in a densely-populated neigbourhood in Copenhagen - Østerbro - without any cycle tracks. I know, I know......
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The Copenhagenize Desire Lines Analysis Goes to Amsterdam
Nine intersections. 19,500 cyclists. Nine hours. All in a city considered as a model for many urban planners. The Copenhagenize Design Company Desire Lines analysis tool headed south to Amsterdam to...
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The Arrogance of Space - Paris, Calgary, Tokyo
Yeah, so, there I was on summer holidays with the kids, standing atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Been there, done that many times before, but it's always a beautiful experience looking out over a...
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LED Busstops in Copenhagen
Photo: City of Copenhagen/RambøllHere's a little story about some innovation soon to show up in Copenhagen. In a city with many busstops and cycle tracks, there is the question of coexistence. For a...
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Car Industry Strikes Back - Smart Hates Peds
Here is (yet) another piece to fit nicely in our ongoing Car Industry Strikes Back series.Yep. All this growing momemtum for liveable cities, civilised streets after almost a century of destructive,...
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Swiss Family Cargo Bike
No big bicycle urbanist article this time. Just a simple tale of what happens when you loan out your cargo bike. During the summer, a Swiss family from Lausanne checked into my Airbnb room. I have had...
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Nantes: A City Getting it Right
A French translation of this article follows the English text.The city of Nantes in France will host the global bicycle conference Velo-City in June 2015. Before showing up, Copenhagenize Design...
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Anniversary of the Modern Copenhagen Cycle Track
I made the above graphic back in 2008 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the return of Copenhagen's separated cycle tracks.Now it's 31 years on, but the anniversary is timeless.It was in June 1983...
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New York Journalist Covers Cycling in Denmark and Scandinavia
This just in... hot off the presses. As always, Copenhagenize has its finger on the pulse of breaking news.A roving New York reporter covers cycling in Scandinavia."If for nothing else the bicycle is...
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