The first book is about post-war reconstruction in Europe in the twenty-first century.
Collaboration is the spirit of this book. A long list of great urban ideas for Ukrainian cities and towns, written by a group of thirty-two international experts who hope to inspire with their ideas. This is not a “we know better” book – this is a team effort. Good ideas know no borders and urban citizens everywhere deserve the same quality of life and influence on the development of their cities. There are choices to be made as Ukraine rebuilds and we hope that those choices are modern and progressive. Let this book serve as a human-scale counterweight to the massive corporate-heavy plans for rebuilding that are forming in closed meeting rooms as we speak.
We hope to inspire the current generation of urban Ukrainians – and future generations — about what is possible regarding the urban change that they expect and deserve. These ideas are universal – fit for implementation in every city in the world – but this is Ukraine’s opportunity to emerge from the destruction of war and become a guiding light in urban thinking — for their citizens first and the rest of us afterward. It is our sincere hope that Ukrainian cities and towns become the urban leaders the world needs.
Mikael Colville-Andersen is an Urban Design, author, public speaker, host of The Life-Sized City tv series about global urbanism, CEO of Coolville Design Lab. He has worked for dozens of global cities on bicycle planning, strategy, infrastructure design, and communication. Currently, Mikael works in Ukraine, engaged in urban redesign, and also supplies used bicycles to the country through his NGO Bikes4Ukraine.org. In 2022 a world-famous “Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism” was published in Ukrainian.
Authors: Andy Singer, Anni Sinnemäki, Arkadiy Shuplyakov, Artem Zanegin, Dr. Bianca Hermansen, Brent Toderian, Carl Honoré, Carlos Cadena Gaitan, Chris Turner, Christine Lee, David Sim, Donald Shoup, Giacomo Biraghi, Jason Henderson, Jean-Louis Rocheron, Jordi Galí, Kirill Maikhopar, Lyana Mytsko, Lykke Leonardsen, Maria Hryshchenko, Maxim Badyornij, Melinda Zsolt, Dr. Meredith Glaser, Michael Cholod, Ole Kassow, Orest Oleskiv, Pärtel-Peeter Pere, Pekka Tahkola, Pernille Vedersø Bussone, Petro Obukhov, Philippe Crist, Romain Loubiere, Sam Goater, Dr. Steven Fleming, Tetiana Kozhukharenko, Vadym Denysenko.
The publication was made possible thanks to the constant faith in Ukraine of Mikael Colville-Andersen and the community of authors of the book, with the support of the SAGA Development company.
