Why Copenhagen's Waterfront is Genius
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Discover how Copenhagen turned its deserted industrial waterfront into a vibrant city hub, attracting visitors and locals alike. This inspiring journey from neglected spaces to bustling attractions offers insights and strategies for cities worldwide looking to rejuvenate their waterfront areas. Explore the key steps, challenges, and success factors in Copenhagen's transformation, and see why it's now considered a global model for urban redevelopment.
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If you go 50 kilomerters west of helsingør, you find hundested, that tried the same as the other cities. It is smaller, so instead of museums and other big buildings, it made the water area to have stuff like an area where kids can catch and see different sea animals in basins, mostly crabs and other harmless ones.
wow, if our waterfront is saved, i dread to think what unsaved ones are like
don't be kunt. you know what sheetholes look like.
As someone who lives in this area (Malmö) I can say that you miss the draw of Malmös west harbour if you go during the winter.
You might think that the area is "built for the people living there" but during the summer it is absolutely packed with people coming from all over the city. While the are people swimming in the winter they are rather few. In the summer it is one the biggest destinations for people in the city.
A mot more people go to the waterfront to swim, have a picknic or hang out that go to the opera or a museum. (Which all exist in Malmö as well, but in the city center.)
There is a hood point being made about investing in buildings which are bith landmarks and public. In Malmö this was done better with eg Malmö Live which is a conference / koncert / hotel in the ciry center. Parts of it are always accessible to the public.
Having been born in Copenhagen in 1963, growing up in Copenhagen, it can be weird for people to imagine Copenhagen harbor to be a place of mostly industry and pretty dirty. This was Copenhagen harbor when I was a child and it is true that there was a period in the 1980s where people simply did not know what to do with the harbor or where to begin.
Tourists today flock to places like Nyhavn, but Nyhavn was definitely not a place you wanted to go in the 1970s unless you were looking for smoked up bars etc.
The old meat packing district today has been reinvented with fantastic restaurants etc, but the whole are was crawling with drug addicts and prostitutes back in the 1970s and 1980s.
Copenhagen today has changed/improved a lot from the Copenhagen I grew up in.
While Copenhagen can become a bit overcrowded in the summertime, I much prefer Copenhagen today from the Copenhagen I grew up in.
To be fair, there are still addicts in Kødbyen haha
GREAT! If only anyone could afford any of the new housing they built.
Denmark is for Rich Hipsters and tourists 🤣
And we have Cute pigeons too
amazing mini doc!!!
I agree it are great buildings and an improved waterfront but the issue I have are that they could have planted tree´s along the entire waterfront area as a strategy to create room that people would ENJOY to walk and bicycle at. It would have created some shade and related to the fact that humans like green living things. It are proven to bring down stress levels and lover heart rate. Where do people flock today? In front of the old buildings at Islands Brygge where there are grass and tree´s and harbour bath/easy access to swim. Had all these new buildings either been pushed just 2-3 metres back or harbour front extended same length a green path with tree´s and grass could have been established and the attraction level would have been completely different. If you on top had demanded that ground floor of new buildings, off course not Library and opera, were set aside for cheaper rent smaller shops and crafts you would have seen a living waterfront year round.
Copenhagen HAVE improved a lot in many ways over last 40 years and the strategy to open up the city even more for bikes clearly are a success so too the Metro BUT it are still in the inner part of the old city you will find people and only in peak summer there will be life around most of the waterfronts. I am old enough to remember seeing the plans and drawings when they were up politically and investment wise and I predicted precisely the result we have gotten. If you do not provide green spaces you will not get life. The main channel still are wide enough to make a "poles in the water" based extension along the canal to make room for this green tree´s row and walk/bicycle patch throughout. There still are a number of the buildings that could have designated small shops if politicians and developers(property owners sat down and worked it out. Despite good intentions nurses and policemen, normal people, no longer can afford to live IN Copenhagen and thus the possibility to have a living buzzling city at the waterfronts are missed out on. No doubt Copenhagen are superior in relation to most capitals around the world in many ways but the trademark we should keep striving to live up to are a city for people to enjoy to live in all year round and the combination of green and water are unbeatable if you can make it happen. Now it are happening in the Islands Brygge front and not many places else and that´s a damn shame. Personally I think that only long term solution are that Copenhagen put aside a sum every year to buy and build property where rent are based on income. Unless you inherit your parents property most are forced out to the suburbs and that are slowly making the city life die out outside summer. People are coming into Copenhagen but fewer and fewer LIVES there.
Helsingør has an English name - Elsinore! Where Hamlet takes place 😊
Great short documentary - thank you! Copenhagen feels like a city of the future - idyllic!
During the 90s and 2000s, the city paid to renovate apartments in the outer districts of Copenhagen, and that let to gentrification.
The waterfront is nice though.
As a Copenhagener, I’m amazed at what we are doing so effectively in our branding to receive this embarrasing praise. The waterfront has loads of errors and everybody knows it; entire neighbourhoods, very ugly buildings and outright dangerous infrastructure (inner harbour bridge, anyone?). Archtects should come out of their weird echo chambers and talk to ordinary people. 😂
preach. architects again and again demonstrate how they are the most arrogant and out-of-touch profession in the universe
The kissing bridge is such a huge joke for us that live near it. God what an embarrassment.
Opera, colloquially known as 'the toaster'
Never heard that ever, and I live here
@@Vfulncchl maybe you want to google something like this:
copenhagen opera colloquially known as the toaster
@@VfulncchlDet har ellers været et ofte gentaget øgenavn i alle årene siden bygningens opførsel. Søg på 'operaen brødrister'.
You should list your sources and link some footage files (Google Drive maybe?) in the description :)
You want Photos of the buildings? The bus route, What kind of documention is you are asking for? That they were build or not?
Do other youtubers often link sources?
Why?
Caution! Loud music ahead!
Not only that but it's your typical pretentious pseudo-hip crap you hear everywhere
I'm sorry, but these new Copenhagen "landmarks" look horrible. Salient they are, but not beautiful
come visit in person