The first thing you notice in Amsterdam's inner city is that there are significantly fewer cars there than in Bremen - fewer cars on the roads and fewer parked cars. The latter appears to be the main reason for the lower number of cars in the city generally. Available...
Berlin’s Volksentscheid Fahrrad initiative (VEF), launched in November 2015, has within a very short time kindled an unprecedented public debate about cycling. The "Radentscheid" has become a perennial favourite of the Berlin media (see Media Coverage) and is now...
Let me introduce myself. I grew up in Germany but exchanged Braunschweig, my place of birth and study, for Newcastle in North England, when I was 23 years old. I am now 43, a Chartered Engineer (Dipl.-Ing) in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Last year, I...
Jan Gehl – Architect, Urban Planner, Visionary and Humanist Jan Gehl is an experienced architect and urban planner from Copenhagen with a very special view on his environment. Today he has become something of a patron for pedestrians and cyclists. He gained fame with...
It's taken a while - over three years in fact - but finally a Bremenize blog has gone live. The idea was hatched in early 2013, as we discussed how we should follow our work on Beauty and the Bike. In late 2009, that project introduced Bremen as a cycling city to a...