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copenhagen • THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN

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A CITY DESIGNED FOR LOWER CO2 – COPENHAGEN TO BECOME THE WORLD’S FIRST CARBON-NEUTRAL CAPITAL IN 2025 • Copenhagen aims to be the world’s first carbon-neutral capital city by 2025 through a dual goal of mitigating the effects of climate change, while simultaneously showing that it is feasible to combine growth, development, and an enhanced quality of life with lower CO2 emissions.

Talent vs. Mastermind

Copenhagen • It only takes a flicker of sunlight for people to flock outdoors to the parks, squares, and bridges of the city. In Copenhagen, public space functions as an extension of the private sphere. I always feel a sense of connectedness biking home through Nørrebroparken towards Stefansgade on a summer afternoon. Every nook and cranny is filled with life – people playing Kubb, drinking beers, or enjoying a bite to eat.

Past, present, future: Woman in Architecture • Copenhagen is known worldwide for its liveability, quality design, and great city architecture. In the summer of 2022, visitors can discover never-before-told stories of women in Danish architecture, as the Danish Architecture Center, located in the heart of Copenhagen in the spectacular building BLOX, exhibits Women in Architecture.

Copenhagen in Common • Copenhagen is famous for planning public life before public spaces, before its buildings. The priority is set out in the city's Architecture Policy from 2017 and copied by several Danish and international cities. But to understand how this priority has developed, one must go back to the structure of city governance itself and understand the political and financial urban history of Copenhagen.

“What got us here, won’t get us there” • Copenhagen’s story is remarkable, and it’s achieved what many other cities could only dream of. But today, it stands at a crossroads that will not only define its ‘success’ but its survival as one of the world’s most livable cities for decades to come.

Visions of Water and the Future of the City • Henriette Steiner, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, talks to key players in Copenhagen’s development: Anne Skovbro, Malene Krüger, Charlotte Korsgaard and Bertha Lysgaard about Copenhagen’s dilemma of viewing water as both a threat and a resource and identity marker.

The Climate Crisis Could Pave the Way for a “Softer” Copenhagen • By now, it is commonly known that the combination of the melting ice caps and more frequent storms, in time, will raise sea levels and eventually leave many coastal cities submerged. Rainwater, seawater, and groundwater are all huge resources. But if we don’t act wisely, they will constitute a giant threat. In Denmark, almost all major cities are located by the sea – including the capital of Copenhagen – a city that must be protected from the consequences of climate change. The question is then: Do we secure our capital through nature-based solutions such as a blue-green “bracelet” surrounding the city? Or do we create large quantities of new developments placed in Øresund, on the sea in front of Copenhagen?

From bikes to car-free areas • Traffic is the main challenge to achieving Copenhagen’s goal of being the world’s first major carbon-neutral city by 2025

“Fewer cars and with it less traffic make cities more liveable” • What would the historic core of Copenhagen look like with fewer cars or maybe with no cars? In Summer 2021, the city launched urban space experiments in...