{"id":22937,"date":"2012-12-01T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145710.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=22937"},"modified":"2012-12-01T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T13:15:31","slug":"bicycle-culture-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/bicycle-culture-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle Culture By Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikael Colville-Andersen is a world-leading <a href=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/category\/city-planning-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">urban planning \/ transportation planning<\/a> consultant. His focus is on human-powered transport, especially the bicycle, and humanizing cities (at least, that&#8217;s how I would summarize it). His blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copenhagenize.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copenhagenize<\/a>, is one of the few urban planning blogs I follow, and I am pretty much always eager to check out his new posts.<\/p>\n<p>Mikael, who is based in Copenhagen (arguably the best large city in the world for biking &#8212; it and Amsterdam are in constant competition for that title), travels the world to consult for cities, companies, organizations, and citizens. Recently, he was a speaker at a TEDx conference in Germany. Of course, it was an interesting presentation and I think well worth a watch, so here it is:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pX8zZdLw7cs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>To see the text of the speech, head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copenhagenize.com\/2012\/11\/ted-x-bicycle-culture-by-design-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Copenhagenize post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the key points of the speech worth picking out and highlighting in a bullet-point list (at least, imho) are thus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good urban or transportation planning requires close observation of people, and how they use the spaces of a city.<\/li>\n<li><em>Design<\/em> should be an integral part of transportation planning and engineering.<\/li>\n<li>Good design often doesn&#8217;t require complex analysis, just careful and open-minded observation and logical thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Traffic engineers and planners need to go out and experience their cities as pedestrians and bicyclists (not just sit behind a computer) &#8212; seems obvious, but this is actually the exception rather than the norm.<\/li>\n<li>Even kids can do a better job designing streets than many of our traffic engineers have done.<\/li>\n<li>An absurd number of people are killed every day from cars and bad transportation design (i.e. traffic engineering) &#8212; this isn&#8217;t a must, but we have come to accept it as the norm, rather than find ways to solve this massacre of human life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikael Colville-Andersen is a world-leading urban planning \/ transportation planning consultant. His focus is on human-powered transport, especially the bicycle, and humanizing cities (at least, that&#8217;s how I would summarize it). His blog, Copenhagenize, is one of the few urban planning blogs I follow, and I am pretty much always eager to check out his &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/bicycle-culture-by-design\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bicycle Culture By Design<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,350,5],"tags":[1121,1122],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0.jpg",480,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0.jpg",480,360,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Zach","author_link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/author\/zshahan\/"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"Mikael Colville-Andersen is a world-leading urban planning \/ transportation planning consultant. 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