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Bicycle Urbanism will explore the ways in which cities are designed to support humans (versus automobiles). Riding a bicycle “changes how we experience our cities” (Piatkowski, 2024). Through an exploration of bicycling, students will dig into topics such as culture, inequality, poverty, public health, public policy, sustainability, transportation infrastructure, universal accessibility, and urban design. Students will explore practices and policies that foster safe, convenient, and accessible bicycle infrastructure and the underlying culture that supports high (or low) rates of bicycle and other non-motorized transportation use in multiple cities in Michigan and Scandinavia. The program will start in Southeastern Michigan (meeting on and around the Dearborn campus) and then continue to Scandinavia where we will visit the cities of Copenhagen (Denmark), Gothenburg (Sweden), and Oslo (Norway). Students are not required to own a bike, however, they must be comfortable riding one. Ultimately, we will learn “not about making cities better for bikes but making cities better with bikes” (Piatkowski, 2024).