Mikael Colville-Andersen
Canadian-Danish urban designer; host of The Life-Sized City and author of Copenhagenize.
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- Mikael Colville-Andersen is a Canadian-Danish urban designer and urban mobility expert.
- He founded Copenhagenize Design Company, which coaches cities on becoming bicycle-friendly.
- He coined the terms cycle chic and Copenhagenize in 2007.
- He hosts the urbanism television series The Life-Sized City, first aired in 2017.
- In 2022 he founded Bikes4Ukraine, which had delivered over 1,000 bicycles to Ukrainian towns by early 2024.
Key facts
- Founded
- Copenhagenize Design Company, Copenhagen (2009, per Wikipedia), and was its CEO1
- Television
- The Life-Sized City, premiered on TVOntario in 2017; five Canadian Screen Award nominations in 20181
- Books
- Cycle Chic (2012); Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism (Island Press, 2018)1
- Earlier
- Film director and screenwriter; debut feature Zakka West (2003)1
- Ukraine
- Founded Bikes4Ukraine in May 2022; designed a trauma-informed therapy garden in Kyiv in 20241
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