What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from Copenhagen
This article was originally published on Common Edge
Cirkelbroen Pedestrian Bridge, a project designed by Studio Olafur Eliasson in Denmark. Image © Anders Sune Berg
This article was originally published on Common Edge
I spent four glorious days in Copenhagen in 2017 and left with an acute case of urban envy. (I kept thinking: It’s like..an American Portland—except better.) Why can’t we do cities like this in the United States? That’s the question an urban nerd like me asks while strolling the famously pedestrian-friendly streets, as hordes of impossibly blond and fit Danes bicycle briskly past.
