ABSTRACT
Cycling, combined with compact cities, can replace many car trips, and have a transformative impact on our cities, our climate, our health, and our social systems. Cycling has a spatial range and other characteristics that make it very suitable for replacing many short car trips in cities. In 2018 Copenhagen had twenty-six wind turbines at its disposal through the public utility. The climate plan has a goal of at least 100 new wind turbines to produce hundreds of megawatts of electricity by 2020. Based on the history of cycling, Copenhagen’s bicycle system shows what a city can look like without a disproportionately aggressive politics of car manufacturers. Copenhagen’s cycling system can help to visualize what a city could look like if, through political change, the car industry was sidelined from positions of significant political influence. The municipality of Copenhagen deserves to be recognized as a leader in green mobility.
