Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Copenhagen

Building a Better Bike Lane

By Jason Varone | | 31 Comments
This weekend’s Wall Street Journal has an massive, full-page report on bike friendly cities in Europe. Initially the arguments for more biking were mostly about health and congestion, but in the last year concern for the environment has become an important factor compelling people to travel by bicycle: Flat, compact and temperate, the Netherlands and […]

Decongestion in Cities Around the World

By Jason Varone | | 1 Comment
GOOD Magazine profiles five innovations in urban transportation that you don’t find in America, yet. Josh Jackson reports: Cities around the world are leaps and bounds ahead of America when it comes to issues of urban transit. Though this country is woefully lagging, it’s a rare example of when falling behind actually works in your […]

T is for Transit-Oriented Development

By Alec | | 61 Comments
Planning a city around transit doesn’t mean you have to cluster everything inside the core business district. Copenhagen, whose thoughtful bike network we’ve explored elsewhere, recently commissioned Chelsea-based architect Steven Holl to design T-Husene, a place for living and working outside the core city. The architect’s renderings, released November 2, fit into a town that […]

Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen

By Aaron Naparstek | | 20 Comments
Copenhagen, Denmark is not a natural bicycling city. In the early 1960’s it was very much of a car town. In 1962 the city created its first pedestrian street, the Stroget, and every year since then Copenhagen has allocated more and more of its public space to bicycles, pedestrians and people who just want to sit […]
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