Copenhagen / DNK The care of urban living Margherita Vanore The Copenhagen quality of life is consistently at the heart of the city's transformation strategies. There is in fact a progressive and constant growth of the resident population, that shows an increase of about 10,000 people per year. Health promotion and prevention for a long time are an integral part of the daily life of citizens, thanks to specific initiatives to strengthen the autonomy of the elderly, but also education of children, young people and adults to healthy lifestyles for their own and common well-being. The conversion of vehicular roads into roads for people, where they can walk and use the space with sharing practices, has in fact had about sixty years of successful experiences. Here the action of urban planners and architects is guided by the plans that foster walkability as an integrated urban policy. At the base of the interventions emerges a clear systemic vision that, while focusing on sustainable development objectives, also acts on increasing urban resilience for adaptation to climate change. The care of people that take care of the city is here an important driver for the construction and redevelopment of urban contexts, where density and liveliness, safety, sustainability and health are crucial objectives for a vision that includes quality of life in that of the environment. The designed spaces qualify the urban edges and create new places to stop and meet outdoors. They include welcoming variations and articulations also in industrial and service-related areas. The strategies of an integrated and sustainable development connote the most recent transformations, where the shared life-space is qualified in relation to the Landscape and an Urban Nature that mediate climate adaptation. In this sense is emblematic the project by the COBE collective of architects, who for the redevelopment, conversion and recovery of the Nordhavn district, proposes as vision “The sustainable city of the future” by extending the city on the sea, shaping eleven quarter-islands which construct a densely inhabited city of water. The quality of the city is designed already in the green and blue infrastructures that precede the planning of the new building by the preventive design of landscape architecture and urban spaces, but also by the presence of “free zones”, free of any building regulations so that they can respond adequately to the future needs.
Copenaghen / DNK : La cura dell’abitare urbano
Vanore, Margherita
2020-01-01
Abstract
Copenhagen / DNK The care of urban living Margherita Vanore The Copenhagen quality of life is consistently at the heart of the city's transformation strategies. There is in fact a progressive and constant growth of the resident population, that shows an increase of about 10,000 people per year. Health promotion and prevention for a long time are an integral part of the daily life of citizens, thanks to specific initiatives to strengthen the autonomy of the elderly, but also education of children, young people and adults to healthy lifestyles for their own and common well-being. The conversion of vehicular roads into roads for people, where they can walk and use the space with sharing practices, has in fact had about sixty years of successful experiences. Here the action of urban planners and architects is guided by the plans that foster walkability as an integrated urban policy. At the base of the interventions emerges a clear systemic vision that, while focusing on sustainable development objectives, also acts on increasing urban resilience for adaptation to climate change. The care of people that take care of the city is here an important driver for the construction and redevelopment of urban contexts, where density and liveliness, safety, sustainability and health are crucial objectives for a vision that includes quality of life in that of the environment. The designed spaces qualify the urban edges and create new places to stop and meet outdoors. They include welcoming variations and articulations also in industrial and service-related areas. The strategies of an integrated and sustainable development connote the most recent transformations, where the shared life-space is qualified in relation to the Landscape and an Urban Nature that mediate climate adaptation. In this sense is emblematic the project by the COBE collective of architects, who for the redevelopment, conversion and recovery of the Nordhavn district, proposes as vision “The sustainable city of the future” by extending the city on the sea, shaping eleven quarter-islands which construct a densely inhabited city of water. The quality of the city is designed already in the green and blue infrastructures that precede the planning of the new building by the preventive design of landscape architecture and urban spaces, but also by the presence of “free zones”, free of any building regulations so that they can respond adequately to the future needs.
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