Copenhagen

[Anondson]

Copenhagen gets favorable treatment in urban-centric circles for its cycling culture.

Found this article on Copenhagen going the Dutch route of summoning land from the sea to create islands to build new housing on.

http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/12/h ... ds/383535/

Since some of the land is state-owned there is some outcry that housing for lower-classes be included.

[mattaudio]

I dunno, personally I'm a big believer in Bloomingtonize. It's a new campaign that looks to take places forward, backward. Maybe sdho can enlighten us. Way cooler than Copenhagenize.

[talindsay]

[Minneboy]

All 3 of my trips to Copenhagen were filled with new things to do. Recommend highly. Winter or summer.

[Anondson]

To grow its metro to 4–5 million, should a "Greater Copenhagen" include southern Sweden?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/m ... are_btn_tw

[mulad]

That's interesting to see. I had gone through Copenhagen back in the mid-1990s on a family trip. Back then, we had to take a ferry to cross the strait between the two countries. The Øresund Bridge opened in 2000, making a road+rail connection that clearly sped up the crossing significantly.

[Anondson]

I smiled that Swedes are sensitive to Danish land grabbing. There's a multi-century history about that, and they got memories.