The east end of Copenhagen’s Amager island is home to incredible public spaces and serves as a major green energy hub for the region.
With wind farms, a high-tech waste-to-energy plant, a biogas fueling station, and nature park, the region pulls together renewables, nature, and sustainable transportation in a highly visible and accessible way.
This post documents a leisurely cycle trip throughout the northeastern edge of Amager.
Nestled centrally in Copenhagen’s eclectic Nørrebro neighbourhood, Superkilen Park is a creative and playful piece of urban planning that begs to be explored. Continue reading…
Today, my wife and I will be hopping on a flight to Copenhagen to spend two months+ working from Copenhagen and meeting with and learning from the Danes.
False Creek, Vancouver’s industrial heartland for much of the 20th century, wears an urban form that incorporates art, nature, and people.
Renewable portfolio standards are an effective and popular way of promoting the uptake of renewable energy in a region. Basically, they mandate that a certain portion of a jurisdiction’s electricity must come from renewable sources. But which provinces in Canada have a renewable portfolio standard? Continue reading…
Denmark is a world leader in the development of renewables, but are the Danes getting good bang for the buck as they pay some of the world’s highest rates for electricity? Does the transition to clean power have any traction? Continue reading…
Mexico City’s metropolitan area is home to 22 million people and is as energetic and chaotic as you can imagine. With such a concentration of people, ideas, and economic activity, it has become one of the great cultural, business, and transportation nodes of the globe. From its days as one of the world’s smoggiest locales, the city (also known as “the D.F.” or “distrito federal”) has come a long way in some of its transportation decisions, but has much work ahead of it to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors alike. Continue reading…
Travelling to international cities is a fantastic way to experience different urban environments.
Recently, I had the fortune to visit both Oaxaca and Mexico City where I took in as much as I could in terms of urban planning and transportation. Both locales have an incredibly vibrant and colourful street culture and face massive challenges—particularly Mexico City—with regard to auto congestion.
But we can learn a lot from Oaxaca and Mexico City as they nail a number of fundamentals in “good urbanism” and are home to some really innovative programs and ideas. Continue reading…
“How are you going to get there?”—“Let me check my phone.”
Between walk, bike, bus and rapid transit, car/bike/ride share, car rental, Uber, and taxis, transportation is now a service and consumer choice has redefined how many get around. Continue reading…
Why would any rational person or group actively lobby against a project that generates clean electricity from thin air while creating jobs and sending cheques to landowners and municipalities?
That’s a great question. Continue reading…