Mikael Colville-Andersen: Difference between revisions

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'''Mikael Colville-Andersen''' (born January 29, 1968 in [[Fort McMurray]], [[Alberta]], Canada) is a Canadian-Danish<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/201105/28/01-4403760-montreal-doit-montrer-la-voie-dit-le-pape-du-velo-urbain.php | title = "Montréal doit montrer la voie", dit le pape du vélo urbain | last=Béland | first=Gabriel | newspaper=La Presse | location=Montreal | date=2011-05-28 | accessdate = 2011-11-01}}</ref> [[urban design]]er and urban mobility expert.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://audi-urban-future-initiative.com/blog/plaedoyer-fuer-das-fahrrad | last=Franziska | first=Queling | title = In Praise of the Bicycle - Progress - don't regress - for quality of life in cities | date=2014-02-14 | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blip.tv/slowtv/on-urban-cycling-mikael-colville-andersen-4060898 | title = On urban cycling. Mikael Colville-Andersen | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/movimento-cycle-chic-que-defende-pedalar-com-estilo-ganha-as-ruas-do-rio-14923553 | title = Movimento ‘cycle chic’, que defende pedalar com estilo, ganha as ruas do Rio | newspaper=O Globo | location=Rio de Janeiro | date=2014-12-28 | language=Portuguese | accessdate = 2011-11-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wort.lu/en/lifestyle/build-it-and-they-will-come-making-luxembourg-bike-friendly-53736912b9b398870802619c | title = Making Luxembourg bike friendly | last=Bauldry | first=Jess | newspaper=Luxemburger Wort | location=Luxembourg | date=2014-05-14 | accessdate = 2015-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://soundcloud.com/cbc-edmonton/future-of-bicycling-in-edmonton | title = The Future of Bicycling in Edmonton | last=Connolly| first=Mark | publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | location=Edmonton | date=2015-01-28 | accessdate = 2015-01-31}}</ref> He is the CEO of Copenhagenize [[Design]] Company, which he founded in 2009, and he works with cities and governments around the world<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/stadt/Zuerich-ist-Lichtjahre-im-Hintertreffen/story/12284924 | last=Stäuble | first=Mario | title = Zürich ist Lichtjahre im Hintertreffen | newspaper=Tages Anzeiger | location=Zurich | date=2012-11-01 | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/06/27/ambassador-of-urban-cycling-mikael-colville-andersen/ | title = Ambassador of Urban Cycling: Mikael Colville-Andersen | last=Finnerty | first=Mike | publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | date=2012-06-27 | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Chain+Reaction/6735071/story.html | title = Chain Reaction| date=2012-05-24 | last=Babin | first=Tom | newspaper=Calgary Herald | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref> in coaching them towards becoming more bicycle friendly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://copenhagenize.eu/about.html | title = Copenhagenize Design Company client list | accessdate = 2014-08-08}}</ref> He is a sought-after keynote speaker at [[design]] and [[architecture]] conferences and events around the world on the subjects of [[urbanism]], liveable cities and [[bicycle history]].▼

==Cycling advocacy==▼

He is known for his [[philosophy]] about simplifying [[urban planning]] and urban cycling and how cities should be designed instead of engineered.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8zZdLw7cs&feature=youtu.be | title = Bicycle Urbanism by Design from TED x Zurich 2012 | accessdate = 2014-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.architecture.io/talks/mikael-colville-andersen-the-importance-of-designing-streets-instead-of-engineering-them/ | title = Bicycle Urbanism by Design: The Importance of Designing Streets Instead of Engineering Them at Architecture IO | location=London | date=2014-10-14 | accessdate = 2015-03-05}}</ref> He is at the forefront of utilising [[observational techniques]] inspired by the likes of [[William H. Whyte]] for [[pedestrian]] and bicycle planning and has been called "the Modern Day [[Jane Jacobs]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://urbantimes.co/2013/08/mikael-colville-andersen-the-modern-day-jane-jacobs/ | title = Mikael Colville-Andersen - The Modern Day Jane Jacobs | last=Payne | first=Tom | publisher=Urban Times | date=2013-08-26 | accessdate = 2014-08-08}}</ref> He employs [[anthropology]] and [[sociology]] in his work to develop liveable cities and, in 2012, he spearheaded the largest study of cyclist [[behaviour]] ever undertaken - ''The Choreography of an Urban Intersection'' - tracking the [[desire line]]s of 16,631 cyclists through an intersection in [[Copenhagen]] over a 12-hour period.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Suhr | first1 = Agnete | last2 = Colville-Andersen | first2 = Mikael | author2-link = Mikael Colville-Andersen | last3 = Madruga | first3 = Pedro | last4 = Kujanpää | first4 = Risto | last5 = Maddox| first5 = Kristen | title = The Choreography of an Urban Intersection | publisher = Copenhagenize Design Company | location = Copenhagen | date = 2013-05-01 | url = http://copenhagenize.eu/dox/Bicycle_Choreography_Copenhagenize.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://chi.streetsblog.org/2013/08/19/digging-into-dearborn-data-patterns-and-behavior-on-the-two-way-bike-lane/ | title = Digging Into Dearborn Data: Patterns and Behavior on the Two-Way Bike Lane | last=Maddox | first=Kristen | date=2013-08-19 | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref>▼

His approach and [[philosophy]] have led to him being referred to as "the [[Richard Dawkins]] of cycling" by Peter Walker of [[The Guardian]] in 2014 interview with [[Esquire magazine]] in the UK,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/sport/6489/cycling-fashion-and-style/ | title = How Cycling Became Britain's Most Fashionable Sport | last=Merrett | first=Jim | date= 2014-06-15 | publisher=Esquire Magazine (UK) | accessdate = 2014-08-08}}</ref> "the Pope of urban cycling" by Canadian newspaper La Presse <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/201105/28/01-4403760-montreal-doit-montrer-la-voie-dit-le-pape-du-velo-urbain.php | title = "Montréal doit montrer la voie", dit le pape du vélo urbain | last=Béland | first=Gabriel | newspaper=La Presse | location=Montreal | date=2011-05-28 | accessdate = 2011-11-01}}</ref> and Austrian newspaper Der Standard,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://derstandard.at/1369363646437/Kultur-der-Angst-gegen-Radfahren | title = Radfahr-Papst: 'Wien ist altmodisch und irgendwo 1952 stecken geblieben' | date=2013-06-15 | last1=Schilly | first1=Julia | last2=von Usslar | first2=Maria | newspaper=Der Standard | location=Vienna | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref> among others and "the Bieber of urban cycling" in an interview with [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/06/27/ambassador-of-urban-cycling-mikael-colville-andersen/ | title = Ambassador of Urban Cycling: Mikael Colville-Andersen | last=Finnerty | first=Mike | publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | date=2012-06-27 | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref>▼

Colville-Andersen has been instrumental in orchestrating the global [[bicycle]] boom, starting with what was later called "the Photo That Launched a Million Bicycles"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/fashion-and-beauty/fashion/cycle-chic-style-on-two-wheels/article11287605/ | title = Cycle chic: Style on two wheels | last=Grice| first=Samantha| newspaper=The Globe and Mail | location=Toronto | date=2013-05-03 | accessdate = 2014-12-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/cycle-chic/story-e6frg8h6-1225902227493?nk=3ba548b7da29f5ef03bdf104211726d9 | title = Cycle Chic | last=Safe | first=Georgina | newspaper=The Australian | location=Sydney | date=2010-08-06 | accessdate = 2014-12-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://urbantimes.co/2013/08/mikael-colville-andersen-the-modern-day-jane-jacobs/ | title = Mikael Colville-Andersen - The Modern Day Jane Jacobs | last=Payne | first=Tom | publisher=Urban Times | date=2013-08-26 | accessdate = 2014-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Chain+Reaction/6735071/story.html | title = Chain Reaction | date=2012-05-24 | last=Babin | first=Tom | newspaper=Calgary Herald | location=Calgary | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribaspace.com/news/5484-copenhagen-cycle-chic%3A-redefining-bike-culture-one-turn-at-a-time-iiwii | title = Copenhagen Cycle Chic: Redefining Bike Culture One Turn at a Time | last=Cahn | first=Megan| newspaper=Triba Space | date=2010-11-26 | accessdate = 2014-12-27}}</ref> in 2006, which led to the Copenhagen Cycle Chic photography and streetstyle blog in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/sport/6489/cycling-fashion-and-style/ | title = How Cycling Became Britain's Most Fashionable Sport | accessdate = 2014-08-08}}</ref> Regarding his early work with the Cycle Chic movement, The Guardian dubbed him ''The [[Sartorialist]] on Two Wheels''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jun/26/healthandwellbeing.fitness | title = Two Wheels | date=2008-06-26 | last=Reid| first=Carlton | newspaper=The Guardian | location=London | accessdate = 2010-08-25}}</ref>▼

He coined the phrase [[Cycle chic]] in 2007,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://urbantimes.co/2013/08/mikael-colville-andersen-the-modern-day-jane-jacobs/ | title = Mikael Colville-Andersen - The Modern Day Jane Jacobs | last=Payne | first=Tom | publisher=Urban Times | date=2013-08-26 | accessdate = 2014-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/fitness/on-your-bike/mikael-colvilleandersen-australian-cycling-is-the-farthest-behind-in-this-conversation-20140917-10huax.html | title= Mikael Colville-Andersen: Australian cycling is 'the farthest behind in this conversation' | last=O'Reilly | first=Michael | date=2014-09-27 | newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald | location=Sydney | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-30/australia-plays-catch-up-modern-urban-planning-bike-lanes/5488538 | title= Australian cities 'playing catch-up' on modern urban planning and bike lanes, Velo-City conference told | date=2014-06-01 | last=Sexton | first=Mike | publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corp. | location=Adelaide | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nightlife.ca/2011/06/02/cycle-chic-denmarks-bicycle-ambassador-bringing-sexy-back-cycling | title= Cycle Chic: Denmark's bicycle ambassador is bringing sexy back to cycling | date=2011-06-02 | last=Harding | first=Oliver-Michael | publisher=Nightlife.ca | location=Montreal | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/04/fashion | title = The Guardian - Cycling is officially chic | accessdate = 2011-11-01 | location=London | first=Rebecca | last=Nicholson | date=2008-09-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inframe.tv/people/mikael-colville-andersen.html?v=2013 | title = Inframe.tv - Interview with - Mikael Colville-Andersen, Cycle Chic | publisher=InFrame.tv | location=Melbourne | accessdate = 2011-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/what-your-bicycle-says-about-you-2285365.html | title= What your bicycle says about you | date=2011-05-18 | last=Walker | first=Harriet | newspaper=The Independent | location=London | accessdate=2014-12-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/movimento-cycle-chic-que-defende-pedalar-com-estilo-ganha-as-ruas-do-rio-14923553 | title = Movimento ‘cycle chic’, que defende pedalar com estilo, ganha as ruas do Rio | newspaper=O Globo | location=Rio de Janeiro | date=2014-12-28 | language=Portuguese | accessdate = 2014-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.magasinetkbh.dk/sites/default/files/arkiv/KBH17_internet.pdf | title = "Cykel Chic - January 2007 (page 25) | newspaper=Magasinet KBH | location=Copenhagen | date=2007-01-01 | language=Danish | accessdate = 2015-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:m7knd8.2.1 | title = United States Patent and Trademark Office listing for Cycle Chic | accessdate = 2015-01-04}}</ref> as well as the word ''Copenhagenize'' in the same year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-30/australia-plays-catch-up-modern-urban-planning-bike-lanes/5488538 | title= Australian cities 'playing catch-up' on modern urban planning and bike lanes, Velo-City conference told | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://discoverstudyabroad.org/tag/copenhagenization/ | title= Top 10 Innovations Denmark is Proud of | date=2014-09-16 | publisher=Danish Institute for Study Abroad | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.copenhagenize.com/2011/01/copenhagenize-origins.html | title = The Origins of Copenhagenize | date=2011-01-01 | publisher=Copenhagenize Design Co. | accessdate = 2011-11-01}}</ref> He has also coined and popularised other phrases such as ''Bicycle Urbanism'', ''Viking Biking'', ''Citizen Cyclist'' and he started The Slow Bicycle Movement in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324823804579012611353639956 | title= These Bikers Race for Last Place - Cyclists say slow riding is response to hard-core fitness world | date=2013-08-16 | last=Levitz | first=Jennifer | newspaper=The Wall Street Journal | location=New York City | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref>▼

Before embarking on a career as an urban designer, he was a [[film director]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173427/ | title= Internet Movie Database for Mikael Colville-Andersen | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref> and [[screenwriter]]. His debut feature film, ''Zakka West'' (2003), was the first indie film in Denmark<ref>{{cite news|url=https://bibliotek.dk/da/work/870971-avis:86227290 | title= Generation Zakka | last=Neiiendam | first=Jacob | newspaper=Politiken | location=Copenhagen | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://politiken.dk/kultur/ECE64383/klar-til-den-store-filmfest/ | title= Klar til den store filmfest | last=Skotte | first=Kim | newspaper=Politiken | date=2003-07-29 | location=Copenhagen | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/en/89603.aspx?id=89603 | title= Zakka West | publisher=The Danish Film Institute | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hitchcock.dk/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80:zakka-west-2003&catid=52:Film-tv-Norden&Itemid=95 | title= Zakka West (2003) | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref> and premiered at the [[Copenhagen International Film Festival]]. He has written and directed several [[short film]]s, including the award-winning short ''Breaking Up'' (1999) and founded the first pan-European organisation for screenwriters - ''Euroscreenwriters'' - in 1997.▼

As producer for [[DR (broadcaster)|The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)]] bicentenary website for [[Hans Christian Andersen]], he and his team won the [[Prix Italia]] award at the [[Radiotelevisione Italiana]] 57th Prix Italia for Best [[Public Service]] Website.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.prixitalia.rai.it/pastedition/prix2005/pdf/winners2005.pdf | title= Winners 2005 Prix Italia | publisher=Radiotelevisione italiana | location=Milan | accessdate=2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://presse.dr.dk/presse/printvenlig.asp?articleid=22419 | title = DRs H. C. Andersen-website og radiodokumentar får Prix Italia | publisher=Danish Broadcasting Corp. (DR) | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerworld.dk/art/29942/h-c-andersen-website-vinder-prix-italia | title = H. C. Andersen-website vinder Prix Italia | publisher=ComputerWorld.dk | location=Copenhagen | accessdate = 2014-12-21}}</ref>▼

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