Quantcast
Channel: Cities for People » Cycling
Browsing all 19 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Are New York’s Bike Lanes Working?

November 1980: Riders protesting Mayor Koch's decision to give up on the bicycle lanes he had earlier embraced. (John Sotmayor/The New York Times) The New York Times, on its Opinion Pages, is hosting a...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

City cycling in India

The online edition of Mint business newspaper, Indian partner of the Wall Street Journal, recently featured an article on city cycling in India. Gehl Architects Henning Thomsen was one of the experts...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Cycling with David Byrne in New York City

Amazing! Here we thought, that Gehl Architects experience in India was singular when it comes to the way in which people feel forced to walk in the streets rather than on the sidewalks and thus adding...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New comprehensive data on Londons ‘Boris-bikes’ (Barclay Cycle Hire scheme)

Cycle hire trips on Londons so-called 'Boris-bikes' (Source: Transport for London and Steer Davies Gleave) Transport for London released data on the first 1.4 million journeys of the so-called...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What New York learned in Copenhagen

Watch Gehl Architects CEO Helle Søholt explain about the many lessons about livable cities that Copenhagen offers to visitors and residents alike. The film is produced by the Foreign Ministry of...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A changing New York state of mind

When I visited New York in January I was worried.  Central Park had just recorded another record snow and the life in the city seemed to resemble that of pre-2007 – the only cyclists were delivery...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Picture of the week

This week’s photo is from our own Lars Gemzøe, Associate Partner, Architect MAA, Senior Lecturer and one of the most active photographers we have here in the office. With a keen eye and an active...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Using open data to plan NYC bike share system

Welcome back to Gehl Institute’s partnership with Untapped Cities in New York, looking at the impact of data, both open and collected, in the design of cities. On March 7, New York City became the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Meer fiets, meer ruimte (more bicycles, more space)

A touch of the Dutch? Like selling snow to the Eskimos? Gehl Architects creative director David Sim gave the keynote at the Fietsersbond (the Dutch Cycling Association) symposium “more bicycles, more...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Friday Fun April 25th

Hello everyone and happy Copenhagen spring time! We kick off one day early due to tomorrows national holiday here in DK Inspired by all the smiling faces I met biking to work this morning, this weeks’...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Moving St. Petersburg on a Bicycle

All over the world we witness cities changing, we see issues of bikeability becoming the center of attention, but it’s not always driven by a sustainability discourse as many would expect. This was...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A Chicago for the Future

(Photo: Kasey Klimes) “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” - Daniel Burnham, Author of “The Plan for Chicago”, 1909 For over a...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Parking day in Copenhagen

By John Bela Co-founder of Rebar and creator of Park(ing) Day   Parking Day in Copenhagen This year was the eighth annual celebration of Park(ing) Day, a global event where people take over parking...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Together, we are responsible – World Habitat Day

Photo credit: Odense Kommune Today we are celebrating World Habitat Day. We are highlighting the continuous need to reflect on the state of the world’s towns and cities and the basic right for all to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Designing for the Social Experience of Bicycling

During the many years in which pedestrian traffic was primarily treated as a form of transport that belonged under the auspices of traffic planning, city life’s bounty of nuances and opportunities was...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Cyclists & Cycling Around the World

At the Eimus Conference about Mobility in Lima, Peru earlier in November, cycling was a hot discussion topic. The book “Cyclists & Cycling Around the World – Creating Livable & Bikeable Cities”...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Winter Activities

The winter season is upon us in the northern hemisphere and in Scandinavia that means few hours of daylight, low temperatures and less people spending time outdoors in our cities and public spaces. But...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

‘SkyCycle’ in London

Just before, we entered into the new year, Foster + Partners, Exterior Architecture, and Space Syntax presented their spectacular, and maybe utopian, project SkyCycle. A project, which would provide...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Brussels – a city of cars, Amsterdam – a city of cyclists

By Devon Paige Willis Devon is doing a Masters program called 4Cities, an Erasmus Mundus Masters that takes students from Brussels to Vienna, Copenhagen and Madrid to study cities. Gehl Architects met...

View Article
Browsing all 19 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images