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”

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Major City Improvement Projects:

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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”