The exhibition City in Motion at the courtyard of the Brno-střed town hall
Life on a bike in the Danish capital
The exhibition of the promoter of the Copenhagen lifestyle, filmmaker, photographer, and also urban planning specialist Mikael Colville-Andersen will be presented by the Architecture Gallery Brno in cooperation with the Danish Embassy in the Czech Republic.
The Danish capital is a paradise for cyclists. More people commute to school and work by bike in Copenhagen than in Amsterdam. For years, the city has been building not only ordinary bike paths but a whole sophisticated system of lanes and highways for cyclists. It is a cheaper and more environmentally friendly mode of transport that saves both space and time. More than half of the city's residents commute by bike every day to school and work.
The exhibition of 50 photographs by Mikael Colville-Andersen depicts everyday life in the City of Cyclists. The author has been documenting the cycling culture in Copenhagen for 4 years. He is also an expert on urban mobility and is known as the cycling ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark. He travels around the world, lectures on urban cycling, and meets with politicians at both the state and local levels.
"Every resident of Copenhagen rides an average of 4.2 km per day by bike, which totals 2,000,000 km for all residents. Denmark and Copenhagen are now symbols of cycling and also to some extent a living laboratory where a number of new projects, ideas, and visions are created in both design and safety or functionality. The latest project is the so-called 'Cycle Snake,' a two-lane bridge exclusively for cyclists connecting opposite banks of the Copenhagen harbor. Copenhagen aims to become the world's first so-called carbon-neutral city by 2025, and systematic support for cycling is just one of many measures in the climate plan adopted by the Copenhagen city hall five years ago," says Lars Kjellberg, deputy ambassador of Denmark.
"In Denmark, cyclists are an integrated and respected part of daily urban traffic. Drivers don't honk at them, don't gesture wildly, and don't curse. They are used to bikes and ride them themselves," adds Gabriel Kurtis from the Architecture Gallery Brno.
The opening of the exhibition will take place in the presence of Lars Kjellberg, deputy ambassador of Denmark, and Libor Šťástka, mayor of the Brno-střed district, on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at 6 PM in the courtyard of the Brno-střed district town hall.
After the opening of the exhibition City in Motion, at 6:30 PM in the premises of the Architecture Gallery in Brno, the opening of the exhibition Contemporary Danish Architecture will also take place. Both exhibitions will run until August 31, 2014.
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The Danish capital is a paradise for cyclists. More people commute to school and work by bike in Copenhagen than in Amsterdam. For years, the city has been building not only ordinary bike paths but a whole sophisticated system of lanes and highways for cyclists. It is a cheaper and more environmentally friendly mode of transport that saves both space and time. More than half of the city's residents commute by bike every day to school and work.
The exhibition of 50 photographs by Mikael Colville-Andersen depicts everyday life in the City of Cyclists. The author has been documenting the cycling culture in Copenhagen for 4 years. He is also an expert on urban mobility and is known as the cycling ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark. He travels around the world, lectures on urban cycling, and meets with politicians at both the state and local levels.
"Every resident of Copenhagen rides an average of 4.2 km per day by bike, which totals 2,000,000 km for all residents. Denmark and Copenhagen are now symbols of cycling and also to some extent a living laboratory where a number of new projects, ideas, and visions are created in both design and safety or functionality. The latest project is the so-called 'Cycle Snake,' a two-lane bridge exclusively for cyclists connecting opposite banks of the Copenhagen harbor. Copenhagen aims to become the world's first so-called carbon-neutral city by 2025, and systematic support for cycling is just one of many measures in the climate plan adopted by the Copenhagen city hall five years ago," says Lars Kjellberg, deputy ambassador of Denmark.
"In Denmark, cyclists are an integrated and respected part of daily urban traffic. Drivers don't honk at them, don't gesture wildly, and don't curse. They are used to bikes and ride them themselves," adds Gabriel Kurtis from the Architecture Gallery Brno.
The opening of the exhibition will take place in the presence of Lars Kjellberg, deputy ambassador of Denmark, and Libor Šťástka, mayor of the Brno-střed district, on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at 6 PM in the courtyard of the Brno-střed district town hall.
After the opening of the exhibition City in Motion, at 6:30 PM in the premises of the Architecture Gallery in Brno, the opening of the exhibition Contemporary Danish Architecture will also take place. Both exhibitions will run until August 31, 2014.
More information >
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