Detroit Bicycle Network Strategy

Client
City of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

Time Frame
2016-2018

Partner
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Cycling Strategy

Project Summary

In the American city synonymous with the automotive industry, the bicycle is returning to the urban landscape. In a big way. Copenhagenize Design Co. was brought onboard to develop a network strategy for Detroit’s greater downtown area. Connecting the downtown core with central universities, hospitals, cultural destinations and surrounding neighbourhoods, the project aims to introduce a network of protected, connected bicycle infrastructure and set a bold model of a bicycle-friendly city for American municipalities to follow - The Detroit Standard. Accompanying the network plan is a series of public education campaigns presenting cycling in a normative, accessible, and affirmative tone and adjacent policy recommendations.