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21st Century City will now offer guided tours in Copenhagen, presentations and micro-consulting. @fietsprofessor is vouching. See you in the streets of Copenhagen!

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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”

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1970: One more lane will fix it. 1980: One more lane will fix it. 1990: One more lane will fix it. 2000: One more lane will fix it. 2010: One more lane will fix it. 2020: ? via @avelezig

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Centralised vs decentralised country 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 (via Greenlbex reddit)

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Stadiums are a great study of how little space people take up and how much space their cars need

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1970: One more lane will fix it. 1980: One more lane will fix it. 1990: One more lane will fix it. 2000: One more lane will fix it. 2010: One more lane will fix it. 2020s: Houston, you have a problem

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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

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Excuse me, while I claim my street space

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@avelezig 1970: One more lane will fix it. 1980: One more lane will fix it. 1990: One more lane will fix it. 2000: One less lane will fix it. 2010: One less lane will fix it. 2019: ⬇️

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Distancing solution in a Danish supermarket via Henrik Schou

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30 people getting coffee. Sprawl vs. urbanism

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If you wouldn't build your house like this, why would you build your city this way?

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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” via @mroich

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This is the Shanghai-Beijing train going at 350 km/h As @yfreemark said: "The distance between NYC and Chicago is almost exactly that between Beijing and Shanghai. NYC-CHI is served by 1 🚂/day (19 hrs) SHA-BEI is served by 35 🚄/day (4.5 hrs)"

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Here’s a proposal by @RedJello

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Remember that electric cars won't solve congestion

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150 people overtaking 50 people

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Move people, not vehicles.

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For many of the same reasons we don’t build houses like this, we shouldn’t build our cities this way

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When your city isn’t doing enough

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Siri, show me the best idea to destroy cities.

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Paint is not enough #paintisnotenough

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This will change everything

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Maps can be deceiving

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Remember that electric cars won't solve congestion in cities

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Excuse me, while I claim my street space by Michael Rakowitz (2004)

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. @rickygervais is having none of it

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Another reason to plan car-free/-lite cities

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The urban superposition

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San Francisco way back. A lot of jaywalking before it even had a name 🥳

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This should be mandatory when taking driving lessons

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150 people overtaking 50 people ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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When everybody chooses the fastest individual means of transport at the same time, it ends up being the slowest

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Sad, but true

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A city of benches is a city for people.

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If this wasn’t ‘social engineering’ then nothing is

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Paint is not enough #paintisnotenough

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Stadiums are a great study of how little space people take up and how much space their cars need

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Ik ben al een tijdje geboeid door Amerikaanse stadions en hun bizar grote parkeerterreinen.

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Each area contains ~70 people.

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BIKE LANES ONLY LOOK EMPTY BECAUSE THEY ARE DAMN EFFICIENT This stretch in Copenhagen conveys 8 times as many people on bikes compared to cars - still it's mostly cars we see. vid @anderspreben

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If everybody drives, your city won't thrive

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Less lawn, por favor

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If you think your city will never change, watch this before/after video of Paris by @Jamesdestafford

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World: "The Dutch are so ridiculously progressive on bike culture - what will be next? Bike escalators?!" @BicycleDutch in Rotterdam in 2018:

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If you ride your bike every day for the rest of your life, you’ll probably compensate 0,0001% of Neymar’s private flights

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Neymar flying from Paris to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on a private Boeing 747

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This is art.

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Plaza Mayor in Madrid 🇪🇸 is an incredible intervention in a complex medieval street pattern

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Many stadiums are a great study of how little space people take up and how much space their cars need

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When your city isn’t doing enough

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A bike lane is only a bike lane if it's properly protected

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Human scale or highway scale

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Unfortunately this is often necessary to keep cars out of pedestrian/bike zones

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ChatGPT, please make a convincing visualisation of 20th century planning & transport policy.

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"Our city will never become Amsterdam" Well, your city is just Amsterdam in the 1970s.

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If anyone ever complains about bus lanes, show them this.

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When so much space in your city is given to cars, and still ...

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1970: One more lane will fix it. 1980: One more lane will fix it. 1990: One more lane will fix it. 2000: One more lane will fix it. 2010: One more lane will fix it. 2020s: Houston, you have a problem

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If you think your city will never change, watch this before/after video of Paris by @Jamesdestafford

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How fast is your intercity train? Here's a visual comparison of 🇩🇪 ICE and 🇫🇷 TGV by @hdambeck

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If this is your problem…

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New urbanist principle; If Lana Del Rey can’t cross infrastructure by taking a normal step, it takes up too much space

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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” - @EnriquePenalosa

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Paint is not enough #paintisnotenough

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Dress right for hostile architecture by Sarah Ross

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Jane Jacobs

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City of Copenhagen to remove 600 out of 1,050 public parking spots in the city centre. The space will be replaced by wider sidewalks, bike lanes and greenery. The Technical Committee passed the proposal by the administration yesterday.