The bicycle makes sense in cities. With rising urbanization, our cities need modern mobility solutions, and moving around on two wheels proves time and again that it can offer results [...]
With each edition, the Copenhagenize Design Company’s Index of the most bike-friendly cities in the world evolves...This year, we considered cities with a regional population over 600,000 (with a few exceptions because of their political and regional importance, and to keep things interesting).
— Wired Magazine
Copenhagenize is a design consultancy based in Copenhagen, Zurich, Brussels and Amsterdam that advises cities on how to become more bike-friendly, often through implementing strategies developed in the Danish capital (which consistently tops the list). These strategies are both infrastructural, for example creating dedicated and protected one-way bike lanes, as well as social, involving advocacy to increase social acceptance of bicycle culture.
This year, Copenhagen regained the top place from Amsterdam:
Eindhoven 
Malmö 
Nantes
Bordeaux 
Antwerp 
Seville 
Barcelona
Berlin
Ljubljana 
Buenos Aires 
Dublin 
Vienna 
Paris 
Minneapolis 
Hamburg
Montreal 
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Number 18 muther effers.
Curious if #18 & 20 claim that year round and if there are design examples of dealing with winter problems?
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