{"id":1993,"date":"2013-12-15T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2013-12-15T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T00:04:55","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e16-baby-steps-begone-with-mikael-colville-andersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E16: Baby Steps Begone with Mikael Colville-Andersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1994\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"mikaelcolvilleandersen\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mikaelcolvilleandersen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mikaelcolvilleandersen.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mikaelcolvilleandersen-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Vesterbro with Mikael Colville-Andersen, urban mobility expert and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copenhagenize.eu\">Copenhagenize<\/a>. They discuss where Los Angeles, with its &#8220;pockets of goodness,&#8221; ranks on the global scale of Copenhagenization; what it takes for a city&#8217;s population to become &#8220;intermodal&#8221;; his experience growing up in an English-Danish-Canadian household, biking all the time before the onset of the &#8220;culture of fear&#8221;; the qualities of a mainstream bicycle culture, including a lack of specialized cycling clothes of the type worn by the sport cyclists who have &#8220;hijacked&#8221; the practice; learning how not to promote cycling from environmentalism, the greatest marketing failure of all time; the need, in some places, to sell urbanism before you can sell urban cycling; his work busting myths about why Copenhagen allegedly differs so much from all other cities; why he settled in Copenhagen himself, beyond not needing to explain his name so often; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribaspace.com\/image\/scaled\/56\/56f42ca7-16f7-4e06-a38f-9e897bb21ebc.jpeg\">the photo<\/a> he took that &#8220;launched a million bicycles&#8221; and made him into a modern-day Jane Jacobs; the failed science of traffic engineering and how to rebuild it; cycling&#8217;s &#8220;modal share&#8221; and what it tells you about a city, especially when it rises above five percent; the bicycle as &#8220;the symbol of the future, man&#8221;; how helmets kill cycling culture, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY\">his TED Talk on riding without one;<\/a>\u00a0our innate need, as human beings, to fear stuff; and what urban cycling promoters can learn from the success of automobiles, and especially their introduction of the term &#8220;jaywalking&#8221; and the very concept of playgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E16_Mikael_Colville-Andersen.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Vesterbro with Mikael Colville-Andersen, urban mobility expert and CEO of Copenhagenize. They discuss where Los Angeles, with its &#8220;pockets of goodness,&#8221; ranks on the global scale of Copenhagenization; what it takes for a city&#8217;s population to become &#8220;intermodal&#8221;; his experience growing up in an English-Danish-Canadian household, biking all the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copenhagen","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}