Capital and largest city of Denmark, Copenhagen is spread on the Islands of Zealand and Amager, linked to Malmo by car and rail roads. Copenhagen and Malmo are in fact integrating their labor markets. Copenhagen has been ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world, one of the most important business cities in Scandinavia and the Nordic Region, a cultural world city.

The city of Copenhagen is frequently mentioned in “best city” surveys, based on different criteria. All worldwide and regional surveys where Copenhagen appears in the rankings presented on this site are listed below. Continue reading »

AskMen.com published in 2007 a Top 10 of Bicycle Cities, about best cities in the world good for bikes. They looked at how well-connected and incorporated are the bike lanes and paths into the city’s major downtown routes, at the efforts in innovation in accommodating cyclists despite the confines of an urban setting, at the low risk to have your bike stolen, at the overall cycling infrastructure provided by several world cities to ride your bike in.

While North America tries to accommodate increasing numbers of cyclists, many European prototypes have already engineered cities with the bicycle in mind. Among them, Scandinavian countries boast many bustling city centers designed around the bicycle. Continue reading »

According to the UK publication Monocle, the city of Munich (Germany) has been found in 2007 as the most liveable city in the world. Munich is immediately followed, in the top of 20 cities established by the publication, by Copenhagen (Denmark) and Zurich (Switzerland).

Most top places are essentially taken by cities from western Europe. As usual, we also find few cities from Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the new destinations for immigrants. The actual surprise comes from two cities of Japan (Tokyo and Kyoto), Tokyo on a very honnorable place 4. Continue reading »