These three images show some neighborhood street details. “Gagade” in Danish means “pedestrian street.” it was made at a wide intersection that had 5 approaches – they created a fenced playground in the middle to create a central island, put in picnic tables around the outside with umbrellas, and then Read more…
Copenhagen has a 10,000 square meter traffic garden! Trafiklegepladsen Faelledparken! (hint the word “leg” in Danish means Play – think Lego – the Dutch invented Legos!) Kids spend time playing and get to goof off on actual scale versions of real-life bike facilities they’ll see in the big world! A Read more…
Planning Cities for People on Bikes – Final Presentations The University of Oregon students in the Sustainable Bicycle Transportation in Denmark and the Netherlands for Summer 2022 course have created a final project based on individual topics they found interesting as they traveled this past month. This blog provides a Read more…
Yesterday and today we enjoyed a wonderful outdoor area that gives residents of Amsterdam a place to relax and refresh in a large, open, greenspace that connects many museums. It is called the Museumplein. The museums surrounding this open space, which resembles a University Quad, have roughly 20,000 visitors each Read more…
Well today we saw our first stop sign. What a bummer. We have ridden hundreds of kilometers in 6 different cities, across two countries. And had not seen a single stop sign.
I could not say it any better – so I am going to cheat with this blog post. I wholeheartedly agree with these words from Robert Spurlock, another Scan Design Fellow who just returned home to Portland, Oregon after spending time in Denmark and experiencing what the Danish get to Read more…