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JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR. LITT. FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS
URBAN QUALITY CONSULTANTS, COPENHAGEN
CITIES FOR PEOPLE
GREEN MOBILITY
Wanted:- Lively City - Attractive City - Safe City - Sustainable City - Healthy CityNeeded: ONE STONE-FIVE BIRDSPOLICY
ONE STONE/FIVE BIRDS Policy
”In this City everything will be done to invite people to walk and bicycle as much as possible in
the course of their daily day doings”
What is good about bicycling?
It is easy to bring the bicycle along
Yes, we can easily become pedestrians
True door to door transport
It takes up little space
Bicycle tracks are efficient
It is good for the environment -no pollution
Same distance and the different use of energy(Measured in potatoes”)
It is good for the environment -no noise
It is good for your health• “Bicyclists live longer” • 30 minutes of exercise every day• = 7 more years to live!
“Bicyclists live longer”“Danes who bicycle to work every day reduce the risk of serious diseases with 50%”
Politiken Danish Newspaper 28.04.2000
We must reduce pollution in cities -biking is part of the solution
Bicycling is C02 neutral
Copenhageners cycling save over 90.000 t CO2annually
23 billion Dkr in savings for society if the Danes would use the bicycle 50% more
”In this City everything will be done to invite people to walk and bicycle as much as possible in
the course of their daily day doings”
A brief visit to Copenhagen -City of Bicycling
Copenhagen-City of Bicycling
-on a citywide network of bicycle lanesBicycling in Copenhagen
-an efficient, citywide transportation system
Bicycles are taken straight through the street crossings and the lanes are marked in blue
Bicycle signals turn green six seconds before the car signals
Green waves - for bicycles
17 km/h to 20 km/h
- sidewalks and bicycle lanes are taken across sidestreets, making the city more comfortable and people friendly!
Copenhagen Street: 2Sidewalks, 2 proper bicycle lanes, street trees, 2 lanes for 2 way traffic, and a substan-tial median to facilitate crossing the street
”We do not have to think and act as 1960s
traffic engineers for ever -times are
changing and traffic engineers are by now
much smarter”
Regulations: All Taxis must provide racks for 2 bicycles
Regional Trains welcoming bicycles
New Metro - please bring your bike Are lifts are provided? Yes, of course!
Everybody bikes
Everybody bikes
Modeshare comparison:
CopenhagenBrisbane
Cycling to work: 2 % Cycling to work: 36 %
Cycling by sex
Brisbane Copenhagen
Mother in law:Age 85
Age 92-open to age groups 5-85+
Celebrating a 45th Wedding Aniversery
Home
Dinner
Combined Age 136 years
Manhattan & the 45th Aniversery!
Battery Park
Central Park
The Danish Crown Prince is doing it too
Two guys on the road towards the thronePrinces Frederik and Christian on their way to the day care
50% Australian kid !
Even Australians can learn to bicycle if they start early!
Bicycling has doubled in 10 years
Inner city morning peak
Going to work in the City of Copenhagen
36% use bicycle27% drive car33% use public transit5% walk
70% continue to bike in the winter
Slide 115
Major complaint 2002: Congestion -on the bicycle lanes!
Official City Poster September 2007
Copenhagen The No 1 Bicycle in the World
Goals for 2015:
50% of all comuting on bicycles
Bicycle Accidents to be halved”
CopenhagenLondonEdinburghOslo
PerthAdelaideCape Town
SeattleSan Fransisco
Wellington Auckland Christchurch
AmmanMuscat
StockholmRigaRotterdamZürich
Mexico City
Major City Improvement Projects:
New York
Brisbane Sydney Melbourne
Reykjavik
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Comming ProjectsCurrent ProjectsPrevious Projects
GEHL-Architects, Urban Quality Consultants, De
Melbourne, - 3 mio. Inh.
Pedestrian traffic weekdays daytime: +40%
Pedestrian traffic evening: +100 %
Stationary activities +200-300%
MELBOURNE City Center 1994-2004
Copenhagen Melbourne oct 07
A CITY GOOD AT PARTIES, OLYMPICS and SUMMITS….
….. BUT NOT SO GLORIOUS FOR THE EVERYDAY LIFE
Main Street in Sydney to be transformed: To Pedestrians, Bicycles and Light Rail
EVERYDAY LIFE
Copenhagen Style Bicycle Lanes
(on Copenhagen Corner) Sydney, Oct.2008
NYC Dept. of Transp. w/ Gehl Architects,
Published: 13 nov 2008
9th Ave. Apr.08
9th Ave. Sep.08
9th Ave. Sept.08
Madison Square Nov. 2008
Broadway Boulevard Oct.2008
Herald Square
Broadway Boulevard 23 May 2009“When you can make it there you can make it anywhere,New York, New York !!”
WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY
Wanted:- Lively City - Attractive City - Safe City - Sustainable City - Healthy CityNeeded: ONE STONE-FIVE BIRDSPOLICY
Copenhagen: New Public Life Policy 2009: ”WORLDS FINEST CITY FOR PEOPLE”
Copenhagen: New Public Life Policy 2009: ”EVERYONE TO WALK 20% MORE BY 2015”
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