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Learn how to advance cycling mobility in your city during one of our in-person or online master classes. works to create life-sized cities and we focus on the integral role that Bicycle Urbanism plays in our return to them.

08/09/2026

Last chance! Past participants in the Copenhagenize Master Class have included city officials, transport engineers, cycling advocates, and NGO directors from across Europe, North America, Asia, and beyond. These are all people who went back to their cities and used what they learned to advocate for and implement world-class cycling strategies that transform mobility and strengthen cities at their core.

Our masterclass cohort is deliberately small with 10 people max per edition because we find that the conversations happening between the changemakers in the room is one of the most valuable parts of three days in Paris.

Our Essentials master class covers the fundamentals of bicycle urbanism—from infrastructure and design to communication and policy. Participants experience the city’s cycling network first-hand as Paris itself becomes the classroom. We also offer immersive field visits and case studies, which come directly from the Copenhagenize Index.

Registration for our master class closes this week. We would love to see you September 29 to October 1, 2026 in Paris. If you've been thinking about it, the time to register is now! More details here: https://www.copenhagenize.eu/annual-edition-master-classes

And as always if you can’t join us in Paris, we also offer two online master classes this fall.

Edition 1 - October 6, 13, 20, 2026 at 9:30 am CET / 3:30 pm SST / 4:30 pm JST
Edition 2 - November 3, 17, 24 at 5 pm CET / 11 am EST / 8 am PST

03/09/2026

A curb isn’t the only design solution for protecting cyclists. And the redesign of Avenue Parmentier in Paris shows the many ways we can protect our cyclists from cars and car lanes. 🚲

Work on the avenue began in March 2025 and ran through the end of the year. The plan wasn’t to add new lanes, but to make permanent what had started as temporary coronapiste infrastructure during the pandemic.

The goal was to secure the unidirectional cycle lanes running along both sides of the avenue while including everything else the street needed to function. In the case of Avenue Parmentier, important street side necessities like bike parking, greenery, temporary delivery parking and bus stops were all used to protect cyclists from car lanes.

Accessible bus stop islands were redesigned so that boarding and alighting doesn't create conflict with cyclists passing through. They also planted 883 square meters of new vegetation, which includes buffer greenery between the cycle lane and the road.

A bike lane that disappears at a bus stop, or that gets blocked by a delivery van, isn't safe. What Paris is slowly building on streets like Avenue Parmentier is infrastructure that accounts for every competing use of the street and designs around all of them at once.

That's the kind of systems thinking that the Copenhagenize Master Class is built around. Not just what to build, but how every element of a street works together and what happens when one of them is missing. Join us for our Paris Master Class this September 29 to October 1 to learn more. If you’re interested, head here for more information: https://www.copenhagenize.eu/annual-edition-master-classes

Supported by EIT Urban Mobility.

02/09/2026

Registration for the Copenhagenize Master Class in Paris closes September 7. 🚲

If you're new here: each year, we bring together a small cohort of urban planners, transport engineers, change-makers and more for three days of bicycle urbanism education in one of the world's top 5 cycling cities.

Our Bicycle Urbanism Master Class is built from our 15+ years of international planning experience and the Copenhagenize Index, the most comprehensive global benchmark of bicycle-friendly cities ever published, and uses Paris itself as the classroom.

The Master Class includes field visits, bike tours of Paris, expert guest speakers, and a bicycle policy framework you can apply to your own city the moment you get home.

Past participants have called the class one of the most valuable professional training of their careers because of the curriculum and the powerful conversations with the Copenhagenize team and other participants.

Miss this edition and the next opportunity won't come until 2027. That's another year of your city working without the diagnostic tools, the strategic framework, and the peer network that past participants have said changed how they approach their work.

Join us September 29 to October 1, 2026 to understand what the world's leading cycling cities are doing differently and how to apply it where you live.

If Paris doesn't work for you, two online editions are available in October and November. All of the information is here: https://www.copenhagenize.eu/annual-edition-master-classes.

Supported by EIT Urban Mobility.

31/08/2026

What would it take for you to feel comfortable putting your child on a bike and letting them ride to school?

It's one of the most revealing questions you can ask about a city. And this is not because children are the only ones who matter, but because it often tells a bigger story about the city itself.

In 1969, 48% of American children walked or biked to school. By 2009 that number had collapsed to 13%. The infrastructure didn't fail children, specifically, it failed everyone who wasn't in a car.

The cities at the top of the 2025 Copenhagenize Index understand this. Utrecht, ranked #1 in the world for bicycle urbanism, has built a network so safe and connected that cycling is the natural choice for families. The streets were designed around the most vulnerable people on them and everyone else benefited.

That's the standard the Copenhagenize Master Class holds cities to. Not "is this good enough for a confident adult cyclist?" but "would an underserved cyclist feel safe here?"

If your work involves making cities more livable and cyclable, there are still a few seats left for the September 2026 edition in Paris. And as always if you can’t make it to Paris, we offer two online Master Class sessions this Fall as well.

More information here: https://www.copenhagenize.eu/annual-edition-master-classes

30/08/2026

If you've ever cycled in Paris, you might have felt like the streets are made up of a language you haven’t quite learned yet.

Here are 5 signs and symbols every cyclist in Paris should know:

🚦 The traffic light. Cyclists will sometimes have their own traffic signals. Oftentimes they will turn green before the traffic lights for motorized vehicles so that bicycles can clear out before cars are ready to move.

🚶 The crosswalk light. Sometimes where there isn’t a traffic light specifically for bicycles, you’ll find your signal to move within the crosswalk lights. In intersections with these lights, you can watch this sign instead of the main light.

📦 Cargo bike parking. Paris has been building out dedicated parking bays for cargo bikes as their numbers surge across the city. They're marked separately from standard bike parking and designed for the longer, wider footprint of a bakfiets or longtail.

🔺 The M12 sign. A triangular yield-style sign above a traffic light that allows cyclists to go through a red light. The signs are inspired by folk law, the idea that everyday behavior in public space tends to precede the infrastructure built to manage it.

🚗 Sauf vélo signs. Sauf vélos means "except bicycles." Posted beneath prohibitory signs like no entry or one-way to indicate that the restriction applies to motor vehicles but not to cyclists. They turn dead ends into shortcuts and one-way streets into two-way cycling corridors.

Taken together, these five signs tell a story about how Paris has approached its cycling transformation: not just by building infrastructure, but by rewriting the rules of the road around the people using it.

That's exactly what we unpack at the Copenhagenize Master Class this September 29 to October 1 in Paris. Three days inside one of the world's top 5 cycling cities, guided by the team behind the Copenhagenize Index. If you can’t make it to Paris, we still have space for our virtual master classes which you can take from anywhere in the world.

You can find more information here: https://www.copenhagenize.eu/annual-edition-master-classes

26/08/2026

Have you ever watched cyclists run through a red light in Paris? It might not be what it seems.

The M12 is a small triangular sign installed above certain traffic lights across the city. These little signs allow cyclists to pass through a red light in the direction indicated, as long as they yield to any other road users who have the green.

Paris began rolling out M12 signs in 2012, inspired by what urban planners call folk law, which is the idea that people's everyday behavior in public space tends to precede the infrastructure designed to manage it (Think: desire lines or jaywalking).

Cyclists had long been treating red lights as yield signs, not out of recklessness, but because a bicycle stopping and restarting at every light operates on a completely different logic than a car.

The concept isn't unique to Paris. The Idaho Stop in the United States, introduced in 1982, allows cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield and a red light as a stop sign. Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have developed similar approaches.

The result is smoother traffic flow, fewer simultaneous restarts between bikes and cars, less physical effort for cyclists, and fewer rule violations because the rule has been redesigned around how people actually move. Cycling modal share in Paris has doubled in five years. The M12 is one small piece of the system that made it possible.

If you want to learn more about what made Paris the cycling city it is today and how you can transform your own city, you can learn more about our Master Classes here: https://www.copenhagenize.eu/annual-edition-master-classes

25/08/2026

The top rated cities in the 2025 Copenhagenize Index spend more per capita on cycling. But being able to dedicate a portion of a city’s budget to cycling usually comes only after years of advocacy, evidence and having the right people in the right rooms.

Last chance to register for this years Bicycle Urbanism Essentials Master Class in Paris this September!

Cycling isn’t just an add-on, it’s part of comprehensive planning and mobility strategies.

The cities pulling ahead have people inside them who know exactly what to build, in what order, and how to bring decision-makers along. 🚲

That knowledge is learnable. The Copenhagenize Master Class is where you can learn it. Here you’ll have industry experts and the Copenhagenize Index as your guide along with Paris as your classroom. September 29 to October 1, 2026. Registration deadline September 7th.

If you can’t make it to Paris we’re also offering two online sessions this Fall. More information here:
https://www.copenhagenize.eu/annual-edition-master-classes

16/07/2026

Meet Mauricio, one of our architects and urban planners here in Paris, and his bike. 🚲

When Mauricio chose his bike, he wanted it to keep up with every part of his life. He commutes 14 km each way to work, so the setup came together around versatility and the ride itself.

He runs hybrid on-road/off-road wheels to handle different routes, a stem riser for a more comfortable cycling position, and a bottle holder to stay hydrated on his commute. An over-the-tire rack bag carries his laptop and everything else he needs for the office. Front and rear lights keep him visible for the darker rides home, and a child seat adapter means his kid can come along when need be.

His 14 km commute isn’t out of the norm for those in Paris and Greater Paris. Among new daily cyclists, the proportion of working people under 45 is rising.

If you want to learn about bicycle urbanism in Paris or around the world, you can download The Copenhagenize Index here: https://copenhagenizeindex.eu/

11/07/2026

What does a city actually get when it invests in cycling infrastructure? 🚲

Research shows that for every kilometer cycled, society gains the equivalent of €0.64 in economic value, mostly through health benefits. While every kilometer driven by car costs society €0.71 (Cycling Embassy of Denmark).

That gap adds up fast at a city scale. Studies on cycling infrastructure investments have found benefit to cost ratios of between 2:1 and 5:1, meaning that for every euro a city puts into protected cycling infrastructure, it gets back two to five euros (Share the Road Cycling Coalition).

When Québec City built protected cycling corridors, retail sales along the route climbed by nearly 10% in a single year (The Copenhagenize Index). Cycling infrastructure increases foot traffic, slows people down in commercial areas, and generates more municipal revenue through increased property values and local spending 🔎

The Copenhagenize Master Class is where you learn how to make this case inside your own city to the budget holders and the elected officials. Three days in Paris, September 29 to October 1, 2026. A few seats remain.

If you can’t make it to Paris, we also offer an online course.

Edition 1 - October 6, 13, 20, 2026 at 9:30 am CET / 3:30 pm SST / 4:30 pm JST

Edition 2 - November 3, 17, 24 at 5 pm CET / 11 am EST / 8 am PST

You can find more info here: https://www.copenhagenize.eu/annual-edition-master-classes

09/07/2026

Meet Kassandra, one of our team members here in Paris, and her bike. 🚲

When Kassandra was choosing her bike, she wanted it to fit into her life as practically as possible. Since her apartment building has no bike storage, she has to park her bike on the street at night. This means she wanted something light and small that could fit into street parking easily and wouldn't attract the attention of bike thieves.

Unfortunately, there are over 6,600 bikes reported stolen every year in Paris.
From there, the build came together around her life. She has a Polisport seat on the back for her daughter and a front basket that holds up to 10kg. For Kassandra and her daughter, this bike is their preferred mode of transport because it’s the fastest way to get around the city, but the exercise and the enriching moments with her daughter are also an added plus.

Paris now has over 1,678 km of bike-friendly routes, up from just 700 km in 2013. Cycling modal share has doubled in five years, from 5% to 11%. If you want to learn about bicycle urbanism in Paris or around the world, you can download The Copenhagenize Index for free here: https://copenhagenizeindex.eu/

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