In a city like Copenhagen, something like 97 percent of the homes have 'district heating' which means homes get the excess heat from the production of power so there's no fuel consumed just to heat homes-the excess heat is coming from other processes that actually create heat!' In Denmark we only landfill 4.2 percent of our waste 42 percent is recycled and 54 percent is used as fuel for the production of electricity and heat. For example, there was this story of a massive barge sailing up and down the Hudson river and out on the Atlantic ocean because they couldn't get rid of the trash. 'We just won a competition to design a waste to energy plant in Copenhagen and I think where there's massive potential in the US. Though New York has embraced the pedestrian zones, bike infrastructure, and Copenhagen Courtyard, Ingels says there's room for one more import: district heating. 'New York has created more miles of bicycle lanes in the last three years than are in the entire city of Copenhagen, and there is the plan to plant 1,000,000 trees, and the pedestrianization of Times Square-there's a whole series of interventions and what we're trying to do in our W 57th Street Project is to introduce the Copenhagen courtyard as the heart of the city block.' 'You can say the skyline of Manhattan is almost like purely the product of the forces of finance, commerce and industry and over the last 10 years there's been this new agenda to make the city more inhabitable for human life and life forms in general,' says Ingels.

For example, Copenhagen is known to be one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world, boasting over 350 km of bike lanes and Strøget, a pedestrian-only shopping area, is a very popular section of the city. It seems that it's really the United States that's been paying more attention to the progressive environmental programs and policies of Denmark, which is where B.I.G. 'Since we've opened an office in New York we've begun to pay more attention to the Americas,' says Ingels.

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