Live in Copenhagen

Posted by Carol Coletta on September 21, 2008 |

Our colleague Joe Cortright has been working in Copenhagen where they hope to emulate our CityVitals work.  Joe emailed us from there:

"The irony of course is that the cities work spectacularly well, and the
economies are functioning at a much higher standard, with much less
inequality and poverty than in the US.  Except for space--living space
and parking space--the standard of living is now plainly much higher
here than in the US.

"Copenhagen has a superb new metro system that gets you from the airport
to downtown in less  than 15 minutes, with trains arriving every 3-4
minutes.  Its all automated too--no drivers.  Small, but fast and
frequent trains.  I used to think Portland was bike friendly, but we
can't hold a candle to this place.  Even the 60-something director of
the development agency, a former minister of finance for the nation,
says he bikes to work about half the time.  This same fellow told me
about his son who is an architect, working on retrofitting central city
housing (designed for the elderly) for families with small children. 
They would be awesome…

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