Copenhagen’s Urban Planning

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During the last century Copenhagen has seen major changes in the physical construct of the city but who was involved and what changes have occurred? When did these changes occur? Where were the main areas of development? Why was this change needed? And also, was it a successful development? Main case studies for this discussion include Copenhagen’s post-war master plan for it’s city looking at how it seamless integrated its transport systems, pedestrian walkways and businesses along with housing and zooming in further to the Ørestad district and its development which includes various architecture projects by practices such as BIG. By beginning to find answers to these questions through different sources and analysing them not only through words but also by illustrations and diagrams, an understanding of Copenhagen’s development can be begun to be made. Before these questions can be answered a step back should be made reflecting Copenhagen’s history.
Copenhagen’s history, along with Denmark’s, leading up to the early 1900’s was in some ways similar to other european countries in terms of being conquered “1807 Bombing of Copenhagen by the English navy” (Denmark.dk, 2014) and conquering “1666-1917 Danish colonies in Caribbean” (Denmark.dk, 2014). Up until the 1800’s the layout and land use of Copenhagen wasn’t really as vast as other european cities of the time.
As we can see in Fig.1 (sa.dk, 2014) & Fig.2 (Oldmapsofparis.com, 2014), compared to the development which occurred over in Paris, Copenhagen’s expansion and growth was at a slower pace. This could be due to specific events which happened during this era in history. At the end of the 1700s and leading up to the 1800s Copenhagen experienced devastating fires caused a lot ...

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