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Love Handles and Blogging the City

So, slapped up a Copenhagenize Love Handle in Amsterdam last week, when I was speaking at the brilliant Blogging the City conference. As I promised the audience. Maybe it's still there. Maybe it's not. Let us know if you see it. More on the Love Handles can be read here . The Blogging the City conference , organised by Jeroen Beekmans & Joop de Boer of The Pop-Up City , featured a great line-up of speakers. - Brilliant talk by Charlie Hilton of Urban Times . - Zef Heme l head of the urban planning department of the City of Amsterdam, and blogger at Vrijstaat Amsterdam . - Stefan Höffken from Urbanophil talked about his work and inspiration. - Wouter Boon talked about his successful Amsterdam Ad Blog . - Antonia Märzhäuser on the always brilliant and fascinating Freunde von Freunden site . - Régine Debatty highlighted the story of her inspiration for her blog we-make-money-not-art - Luc Harings from IloveNoord.nl about placemaking and civic pride. -...

Copenhagenizing Copenhagen

We always have a bunch of ideas kicking around at Copenhagenize Consulting . We are always working on individual, tailor-made solutions when we work with other cities - every city is unique - but last month we decided to try out some ideas right here in Copenhagen. In our own backyard. Earlier this year we blogged about how Copenhagen tries to keep Holding On To Cyclists by placing railings and footrests around the city to let bicycle users rest against them whilst waiting at red lights. Brilliant idea and we love it. The text on the footrest is a communications template we developed for the Bicycle Office . These railings, are, however, limited in that these railings can only be implemented in certain locations where they don't interfere with pedestrian mobility. There are eight of them around the city now. Copenhageners, however, will lean up against anything they can at red lights. We have a whole photo series dedicated to it . Have a look around the city. The metal pol...