Photo by Davis Hembrow. Visit his blog HERE.
From Master Plan to Specs: Sustainable Design in Detail | Congress for the New Urbanism:
As planners, and advocates for healthier place making and urbanism, we often talk about the importance of scale. We recognize that city planning must be comprehensive in that the various scales of planning including the region, city, block, street, and building all must be addressed. Sustainable planning can be mapped on a spectrum of needs from the “big picture” of design all the way down to the specifications of individual buildings. It’s the attention to details the matter.
In a short article from copenhagenize.com, a small effort to improve bicyclist’s commute is demonstrated through the convenient placement of trash bins along bicycle paths. This may seem like an insignificant detail within the large realm of sustainable planning, but such efforts, catering to environmentally friendly methods of travel should be commended.
Speaking for myself, and the large community of supporters of New Urbanism, it’s refreshing to see little ways that pedestrians are taking precedent in an ever growing vehicular dominated society. Small efforts to support pedestrian and environmentally friendly places are integral to the overall success of the urban fabric. After all, it’s important to be reminded of whom we are planning for; those who live in the communities we are designing, improving and rallying for.
Could you please give me credit as the source of this photograph, which has been used in far too many places without my permission ?
It's not in Copenhagen, where they don't have bins like this, but in Assen in the Netherlands, where they do. We live in Assen. My daughter is in the photo. The original source is here.
I write a blog about how the Netherlands has achieved the highest cycling modal share in the world.
Posted by: David Hembrow | May 25, 2012 at 04:54 PM
Will do. I had erroneously thought it was a CNU photo.
Posted by: John Michlig | May 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM