The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, stronger than ever. It is the single most important tool for improving our cities. Designing around it is the most efficient way to make our cities life-sized'to scale cities for humans. It is time to cement the bicycle firmly in the urban narrative in US and global cities.
Enter urban designer Mikael Colville-Andersen. He has worked for dozens of global cities on bicycle planning, strategy, infrastructure design, and communication. He is known around the world for his colorful personality and enthusiasm for the role of bike in urban design. In Copenhagenize, he shows cities how to effectively and profitably re-establish the bicycle as a respected, accepted, and feasible form of transportation.
Building on his popular blog of the same name, Copenhagenize offers vivid project descriptions, engaging stories, and best practices, alongside beautiful and informative visuals to show how to make the bicycle an easy, preferred part of everyday urban life.
Copenhagenize will serve as inspiration for everyone working to get the bicycle back into our cities. It will give planners and designers the ammunition to push back against the Automobile Age and convince the skeptics of the value of the life-sized city. This is not a guide on how to become Copenhagen, but how to learn from the successes and failures (yes, failures) of Copenhagen and other cities around the world that are striving to become more livable.
We need to act in order to save our cities'and us'from ourselves. Copenhagenize shows the path forward.
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
1. The Life-Sized City
2. Bicycle Urbanism by Design
3. The Bicycle's Role in Urban Life
4. The Re-Democratization of Cycling
5. Taming the Bull in Society's China Shop
The Learning Curve
6. Copenhagen's Journey
7. Climaphobia & Vacuum-Packed Cities
8. The Arrogance of Space
9. Mythbusting
10. Architecture
11. Desire Lines and Understanding Behavior
12. A Secret Cycling Language
13. A2Bism
14. The Art of Gathering Data
The Tool Box
15. Best Practice Design and Infrastructure
16. Prioritizing Cycling
17. Design & Innovation
18.Cargo Bike Logistics
19. Curating Transferable Ideas
20. Communication & Advocacy
Conclusion
About the Author
IP Board of Directors
"Mikael is the world's most convincing bicycle advocate because he is not really an advocate at all but an extraordinary spellbinder who happens to love bicycling. I see many thoughtful people becoming enchanted by this book and then bicycling forth to build their own human-scale streets as 'monuments to human ingenuity.'"
