Category: Denmark

Biking City Planners / Urban Designers City Solutions Denmark Short Films

Top ten design elements that make Copenhagen bicycle-friendly

SHORT FILMS

Copenhagenize Design Co., 8 Dec 2016

#01 The Big Picture – uniformity of bicycle network 

#02 The Green Wave for Cyclists – cyclist orientated traffic signalling  

#03 Intermodality – cycling integrated into all public transport options 

#04 Safety Details – design of traffic flow, stop line for cars, traffic lights, bus drop offs, use of rumble strips 

#05 Nørrebrogade – redesign of city artery 

#06 Macro Design – showcase projects that increase cycling network 

#07 Micro Design – tiny details that improve quality of cycling network 

#08 Cargo Bikes – 40,000 cargo bikes in Copenhagen 

#09 Desire Lines – urban design reflects how people actually use (or want to use) the city 

#10 Political Will – people in positions of responsibility who understand how to design a city for people

To learn more about Copenhagenize Design Co. and their work developing bicycle mobility networks click here.

Cities / Countries Cities for People City Planners / Urban Designers Denmark Film Makers Global Meet the Urbanists: 21st Century Ranked Cities Streets, Roads & Mobility Talks The Public Realm

The Life-Sized City

TALK

Mikael Colville-Andersen, TED TALK, 27 Oct 2015

It’s all about the people in the Life-Sized City. The people are the main priority, not the machines, not the cult of big, the people. Everything else is secondary. Amazing people populate our cities, like The Lulu. The Lulu is not a consumer, she’s not a statistic, she’s not a number. She’s an amazing little human. Don’t measure her, don’t calculate how much money we’re going to make off of her in the course of her life. How much the cult of big is going to earn of this little statistical person. No. You know what you do? You design the city around her as your baseline. You reduce the number of cars, you reduce pollution, you create more green spaces, you build bicycle infrastructure, safe bicycle infrastructure, so that she can ride her bike, because that is all this kids wants to do. (Apart from eating ice-cream … ) You design for her, for the The Lulus of our world. You design for the citizens of the city, every single one of them, all of them apply here. It’s time to hack it back.

For more from Mikael Colville-Andersen, visit his urban design company Copenhagenize click here, for their ‘Bicycle Friendly City Index’ click here, for their short film series ‘Top Ten Design Elements That Make Copenhagen Bicycle-Friendly’ click here and for The Guardian article ‘Copenhagenize your city: the case for urban cycling in 12 graphs’ click here.

Cities for People City Planners / Urban Designers Denmark Documentaries Modernist Cities Urbanisation

The Human Scale

FILM

Andreas Dalsgaard, Final Cut for Real, 2013

I guess there is this very difficult tradition, which comes from the way we teach architecture and planning, the idea that one person can solve everything. And we even have this term ‘The Masterplan’, like ‘I’m going to do The Masterplan’, which will answer all questions. And of course we know it’s impossible, cities are unbelievably complex, so even the idea of a masterplan is really crazy.  All we can do is make a kind of a framework, we came make a very robust framework which allows life to take place. 

Books (16+ yr) Cities for People Denmark The Public Realm

Cities for People

BOOK

Jan Gehl, Island Press, 2010

Now, after many years, a great deal of knowledge has been amassed on the connection between physical form and human behavior. We have extensive information about what can and should be done. At the same time cities and their residents have become very active in crying out for people-oriented city planning. In recent years many cities in all parts of the world have made a serious effort to realize the dream of better cities for people. Many inspiring projects and visionary city strategies point in new directions after years of neglect.