In order to add density to the urban centre in Copenhagen, developers have made creative moves that include refurbishing old silos for housing, as well as a 160-year-old industrial brewery district called Carlsberg Byen.
On a recent sunny day in downtown Vancouver, seated at a patio shaded by office towers, Martine Reinhold Kildeby, a Danish expert on green development, considers what she would change about the city.“I think it’s problematic where you have areas with only working buildings, not residential. It shows how vulnerable that is when something like a pandemic hits, right? It leaves room for other problems.
London’s Economist Intelligence Unit rated Copenhagen the second-most livable city, after Vienna. Vancouver ranks fifth and is the only North American city in the Top 5. Martine Reinhold Kildeby, a Danish expert on green development. Ms. Reinhold Kilderby and other members of Bloxhub believe they have some valuable lessons to share with other cities.“We promote a sense of sustainability and try not to tear things down and build new ones, because if the new ones are equally static in their function, will they be relevant in 50 years?” Ms. Reinhold Kilderby asks on a follow-up video call.
“Jan Gehl, the famous architect, illustrated this very clearly. He said, ‘first you have the people and then you add some outdoor squares, some space, and then you add the infrastructure and the buildings.’” “Copenhagen was close to bankruptcy 30 years ago, but due to politics, including clever city development, the city now shows itself as one of the most desirable capitals on Earth,” architect Christian Cold, owner of Entasis, writes in an e-mail exchange. “A lot of people look for a place to work and live in this small democratic paradise.”
High-rises can succeed with ambitious design, but “you have to reinvent the symbolic value” of them, he says.
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