Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Copenhagen

Contented Streets: Why Copenhagen Is the World’s Happiest Capital

By Brad Aaron | Jul 2, 2008 | 12 Comments

Why have Danes again been named the happiest people on the planet? Early this year ABC News cited bikes as "perhaps … the best symbol of Danish happiness," and in this clip from "Contested Streets" it isn’t hard to see why. Here, livable streets guru Jan Gehl and others explain the many ways an increase […]

Highlights of the “Equal Tolls, Unequal Access” Discussion

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 13, 2007 | 7 Comments

April Greene reports on Monday’s congestion pricing panel discussion at the New School: "And now the last of the bald men will speak," said Jeffrey Risom, an urban designer at Gehl Architects of Denmark, as he took the podium at Monday night’s congestion pricing panel at the New School. Indeed, all four panelists did possess […]

Is the Mayor Reading Streetsblog on His Bloomberg Terminal?

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 13, 2007 | 8 Comments

Cities won’t wait for national governments to solve their pressing problems, argues Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City in this week’s Economist: In developing the climate-change strategies that underpin PlanNYC, we drew on the experiences of Berlin for our renewable-energy and green-roof policies; Hong Kong, Shanghai and Delhi for our innovative transit improvements; […]

Alan Durning’s “Year of Living Carlessly” and “Bicycle Neglect”

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 19, 2007 | 2 Comments

Alan Durning, executive director of the Seattle-based Sightline Institute has been doing some great writing on Livable Streets and sustainable transport issues over the last year. If you haven’t run across his work, he is writing a pair of ongoing series that I think will be of particular interest to Streetsblog readers. On Friday, Durning […]

When in Rome, Share Bikes

By Jason Varone | Nov 12, 2007 | 14 Comments

The competition is heating up between Eurpoean cities seeking to build the best bicycling infrastructure. As we noted this morning, Amsterdam is mimicking Copenhagen‘s "green wave" for cyclists. And now Rome is bringing a Paris-style bike sharing project to the Italian capital by 2008. Modeled after the Parisian Vélib program, users will ride free for […]

Gehl on Wheels

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 5, 2007 | 9 Comments

The Jan Gehl product roll-out continues apace. Last week, WNYC. This week, New York Magazine. Word has it Gehl’s team will be presenting Department of Transportation brass with some pretty big ideas for street space re-allocation. In the meantime, enjoy another interview with everyone’s favorite Danish urban designer: Can New York really be tamed? I […]

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