The Life-Sized City Blog

This just in... hot off the presses. As always, Copenhagenize has its finger on the pulse of breaking news. A roving New York reporter covers cycling in Scandinavia. "If for nothing else the bicycle is blessed in Scandinavia because it saves time." "No other country has done more for the pleasure and comfort of its wheelmen than Denmark..." "The construction of pavements takes in consideration what best can serve the interests of cyclists, and cycle paths are provided near all cities, in some instances leading miles away from town into the country." "...ride to market on their bicycles with baskets strapped to their backs, and other baskets dangling from the handle-bars of the wheel. ... they seldom come to grief, and manage to keep their equilibrium to their journey's end." From the New York Sun. 19 February 1897. 42,979 days ago (based on today's date) (The Sun was a New York newspaper that was published from 1833 until 195...

In light of the recent launch of New York City's Citibike bike share system, Copenhagenize Design Co. has produced this highly-scientific and frightfully academic statistical graph. Based on the 500-odd bike share systems now in place in the world we have gathered all the public perception of the systems and crunched the data - compressing it rudely but effectively into one easy graph - for use by cities who are considering implementing a bike share system. We have also assisted some NIMBYs in New York. One of them was quoted as saying that he couldn't imagine the Mayor of Paris - the city of arts - placing a bike share rack in front of the Louvre: