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CITY OF COPENHAGEN

MUNICIPAL PLAN 2011

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C I T Y O F C O P E N H A G E N

The City of Copenhagen, Municipal Plan 2011

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CITY OF COPENHAGEN MUNICIPAL PLAN 2011

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FOREWORD


With the City of Copenhagen Municipal Plan 2011, we aim to

prepare Copenhagen for a population of up to 637,000 by 2025. The

city requires up to 45,000 new homes and we aim to provide space

for 2.8 million m2 of new commercial construction. The City of

Copenhagen Municipal Plan 2011 aims to create economic growth

in the entire Øresund Region while at the same time maintaining

Copenhagen as a good city to live in and to visit. We wish to ensure

regional and international collaboration and for this reason, we

have entered into close collaboration with the City of Malmö. We

want Copenhagen-Malmö to be the growth driver of the Øresund

Region and become Scandinavia’s greatest metropolis.

We want to invest in our citizens’ quality of life, maintaining a good

everyday life in Copenhagen and even improving it in some areas.

Our focus areas include construction for children, better conditions

for culture and leisure, improved quality of life for the homeless,

targeted efforts to improve socially troubled neighbourhoods, safety

through joint efforts, more city gardens and a greener city.

Employment must increase in Copenhagen. Hence, we aim to create

20,000 new private-sector jobs and improve businesses’ framework

conditions. We aim for Copenhagen to generate a compound annual

growth rate of 5% towards 2020. Also, 95% of all young people born

in any given year should get secondary education.

Our growth must be sustainable and we want Copenhagen to be the

obvious place to develop and test new environmental and climate

solutions. Our ambitious aim of Copenhagen becoming carbon

neutral by 2025 is one way to achieve this. In order to achieve our

goals, we will establish partnerships for green urban solutions, such

as district cooling and a green lab solution in Nordhavn.

We will optimise the city’s and the region’s accessibility and

mobility by investing in the expansion of our infrastructure,

involving e.g. a harbour tunnel and new metro lines. In the long

term, our vision is that at least one third of all trips in the city

should by made by bike, at least one third by public transport and

not more than one third by car.

We will focus strongly on development to ensure the maximum

return on our investment in urban development and for this reason,

we have identifi ed eight areas that will be subject to new action

plans to ensure the coupling of urban development with the city’s

budgets as well as timely service investments. The City of

Copenhagen cannot do this on its own. We will only succeed if

public and private players team up as partners to invest in urban

development and achieve synergies.

Frank Jensen, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen

TABLE OF CONTENTS


THE ØRESUND REGION 6Vision 7

The Øresund Region — a growth driver 8

Challenges 10

Our solution 12

COPENHAGEN 14A good everyday–life in Copenhagen 17

Challenges 18

Our solution 19

Knowledge and business in Copenhagen 21

Challenges 22

Our solution 23

Copenhagen as a green growth metropolis 25

Challenges 26

Our solution 27

FOCUSED URBAN DEVELOPMENT 28Action plan areas identifi ed in 2011 30

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T H E Ø R E S U N D R E G I O N —a growth driver

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VISION

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BY 2025, COPENHAGEN AND MALMÖ WILL BE AN INTEGRAL METROPOLIS IN WHICH GROWTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE GO HAND IN HAND

BUSINESS HUB, INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE

Copenhagen-Malmö should be Scandinavia’s business hub providing

optimum conditions for the international business sector, and

attracting international head offi ces as well as small innovative

entrepreneurs. The main focus is on enterprises in growth sectors,

such as the cleantech, life science, and creative, maritime and

business service trades and information and communications

technologies. The Øresund Region is Europe’s largest university

region and it should be known for its good study environments, high

research quality and fruitful collaboration with the business sector.

GROWTH DRIVER

Copenhagen-Malmö should be a coherent and sustainable

metropolis creating growth in the Øresund Region as well as in

Denmark and Sweden. Growth created in cities rub off on the

surrounding region and on the entire nation.

SOCIAL BALANCE AND HEALTHY AND GREEN GROWTH

Copenhagen-Malmö should be a socially well-balanced area with

room for everybody. By 2025, the entire Øresund Region will have

grown from 3.7 million inhabitants to a metropolis with 4 million

inhabitants. The two cities should be recognised as good places to

live and to visit and focus should be on healthy and green growth,

giving the citizens the best opportunity to live healthy, meaningful

and long lives.

CARBON NEUTRALITY AND MOBILITY

The Øresund Region should be the fi rst carbon neutral border region

by 2030. Copenhagen-Malmö should be the place to go if you want

to study and test state-of-the-art solutions for renewable energy,

sustainable urban planning and sustainable transport. The two cities

should be linked closer together by improving traffi c connections to

and inside the region.

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The Øresund Region — a growth driver

THE ØRESUND REGION — A GROWTH DRIVER

NEUTRAL

HEALTHY AND GREEN GROWTH

Copenhagen and Malmö must be CO2 neutral in 2025 and 2030 respectively

CO2

Copenhagen and Malmö will be a laboratory for testing new healthcare technologies and cleantech solutions

MOBILITYCopenhagen and Malmö will create efficient traffic connections to and from the region

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SOCIAL BALANCECopenhagen and Malmö must remain one of the world's best places to live and visit

INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE

BUSINESS

Copenhagen and Malmö want to attract international talent and strengthen cooperation between research institutions and businesses

Copenhagen and Malmö must be Scandinavia's business hub for business service and transport and logistics

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CHALLENGES

MANY NEW CITIZENS MOVING TO COPENHAGEN-MALMÖ

Today, Copenhagen and Malmö make up Scandinavia’s largest urban

area and both cities are seeing the strongest population growth

since World War II. Cities play a central role in the global

development and so do Copenhagen and Malmö in relation to the

Øresund Region and the rest of Denmark and Sweden. The

population growth in the Øresund Region indicates that the cities

are good places to live, work and invest in. Hence, the challenge of

making room for the many new citizens is a positive one that can

only be met through hard work and strong focus.

LACK OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE ØRESUND REGION

Growth is generated in large cities – 90% of all innovation takes

place in the large cities around the world, among other things

because cities have the best access to knowledge, which is the

foundation of all innovation. For many years, the Øresund Region

has recorded only average growth compared with its usual peer

regions. Growth in Copenhagen is slightly below 2%, while Malmö

posts growth slightly above 3%. Hence, the Øresund Region is not

performing satisfactorily in terms of GDP growth and in terms of

attracting foreign students and researchers, number of employees

in high-tech enterprises or number of patents per capita. For this

reason, focus should be on strengthening growth and employment

in the coming years. Also, the Øresund Region is facing a challenge

when it comes to unemployment.

BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE

Copenhagen and Malmö must deal with the increasing motor traffi c

in and to the two cities. There is no doubt that the region’s traffi c

hub, the Øresund Bridge and Copenhagen Airport, will come under

pressure. Even if the fi nancial crisis has temporarily curbed growth

in traffi c across Øresund, both the motorway and railway capacity

will become a bottleneck in the longer term, especially with the

opening of the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link between Denmark and

Germany. In addition, both Malmö and Copenhagen are already

experiencing problems with congestion on the main access roads

and in the city centres. Copenhagen Airport’s status as an

international hub in Northern Europe is being challenged by

competing airports. Hence, Copenhagen Airport has declined from

the 10th place to no. 15 on the list of the busiest European airports.

AMBITIOUS CLIMATE GOALS

75% of the world’s carbon emissions comes from urban areas and

for this reason, meeting the ambitious goals of carbon neutrality by

2025 in Copenhagen and by 2030 in Malmö is quite a challenge.

Collaboration between the two cities must be strengthened with a

view to making the Øresund Region a power house for green

growth. This will contribute to reducing carbon emissions and at the

same time improve general health.

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OUR SOLUTION

CARLSBERG

SYDHAVN

ØRESTAD

COPENHAGEN AIRPORT

The City Ring

VALBY

NORDHAVN

Cruise Ship terminal

Cycle paths

Copenhagen Uni HospitalSCIENCE CITY NORTH CAMPUS

Partnership for Tingbjerg

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DTU

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Setting up of infrastucturefor cars running on electricity and hydrogen

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HEALTHY, GREEN GROWTH AND SOCIAL BALANCE

• promote wind energy in the Øresund Region. A number of public

and private players in and around Copenhagen and Malmö are

working with the storing of energy and supply of new urban

development areas.

• increase growth and employment by improving conditions for

cleantech enterprises in the Øresund Region.

• host more international climate, energy and environmental

congresses together with relevant NGOs.

• improve the methods of working with social innovation,

especially in troubled neighbourhoods. This is done in

collaboration with universities on both sides of Øresund, Region

Skåne and a number of creative players and social entrepreneurs.

MOBILITY AND CARBON NEUTRALITY

• examine the capacity on the Øresund Bridge, including e.g. a

new direct and rapid transit connection between the two city

centres and a faster connection to Hamburg.

• strengthen existing fl ight connections and attracting new direct,

international connections to Copenhagen. Copenhagen

Connected is a route development project supported by the

government, regional, local-government and private partners on

both sides of Øresund.

THE BUSINESS SECTOR, INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE

• develop European Spallation Source (ESS) and Max IV to become

one of the world’s largest and most advanced research facilities.

With ESS, Scandinavia will have its fi rst, major pan-European

research facility.

• ensure space for future enterprises and eliminate barriers for

entrepreneurs in the region. In addition, Copenhagen and

Malmö have adopted joint strategies to attract and retain

qualifi ed labour.

• convince 1,200 enterprises to initiate collaboration and trade

across Øresund in the project Øresund Business Match. The aim

is to combine Danish-Swedish capital investments in business

development projects. This collaboration covers the entire

Øresund Region.

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Cleantech City

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The City Tunnel

The City Circle

Better bus connections

BETTER CONNECTION OVER ØRESUND

Trains

NORRA HAMNEN

COMMON PROJECTS

Cycle paths

Promotion of wind energy

Sustainable Business Hub

MAH

Copenhagen Connected

Better connection over Øresund

System Export of cleantech solutions

Localization of growth industries

Øresund Business Match

Combined commercial and residential units in Rosengård

Solar City

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World Village of Women Sports

Stapelbäddsparken

MEDEON

MAXLAB IV

THE WORLD

Setting up of infrastucturefor cars running on electricity and hydrogen

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VISION

Copenhagen —green growth and quality of life

C O P E N H A G E N —green growth and quality of life

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VISION


• A GOOD EVERYDAY-LIFE IN COPENHAGEN

By 2025, Copenhagen will still be one of the best cities in the world

to live in and be a safe, inspiring and diverse city with its own

special and unique character with a mix of old and new buildings,

green lungs and people in the city space.

• KNOWLEDGE AND BUSINESS IN COPENHAGEN

By 2025, Copenhagen will be a knowledge city attracting and

retaining foreign students, researchers, employees and enterprises.

Going towards 2020, average annual growth should be 5%. Growth

and prosperity go hand in hand because the sectors which the city

lives by support a greener, healthier and more exiting city.

• COPENHAGEN AS A GREEN GROWTH METROPOLIS

By 2025, Copenhagen will be the world’s fi rst carbon neutral capital

and have a leading edge on green technology and innovation in

Europe. Also, Copenhagen will be the no. 1 bike city in the world.

The urban development will remain sustainable, which means that

environmental, social and economic development go hand in hand.

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A G O O D E V E R Y D A Y – L I F E I N C O P E N H A G E N

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A GOOD EVERYDAY–LIFE IN COPENHAGEN

BY 2025, COPENHAGEN WILL STILL BE ONE OF THE BEST CITIES IN THE WORLD TO LIVE IN AND BE A SAFE, INSPIRING AND DIVERSE CITY WITH ITS OWN SPECIAL AND UNIQUE CHARACTER WITH A MIX OF OLD AND NEW BUILDINGS, GREEN LUNGS AND PEOPLE IN THE CITY SPACE

AN INCLUSIVE AND SAFE CITY

Copenhagen should be the place where you feel at home, trust your

neighbour and participate in your community, e.g. on school boards

or in sports club. Copenhagen should be the most inclusive city in

Europe by 2015. Copenhageners should be able to move around

their city at all hours of day and everybody should feel safe all

everywhere. By 2025, Copenhagen wants to be a diverse and socially

balanced capital characterised by respect and inclusiveness.

GOOD CULTURAL AND LEISURE FACILITIES AND GREEN LUNGS

The design of the city space impacts how Copenhageners move

around the city and how they use the city in their spare time.

Copenhagen should have cultural and leisure facilities for both

organised and non-organised sports which should refl ect and

encourage the city’s diverse cultural life. Copenhagen should

remain a green city with active green areas and peaceful green

lungs giving Copenhageners valuable experiences in their everyday

life.

A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE

By 2025, Copenhagen will have up to 637,000 inhabitants and most

of them will be young people and families with children.

Copenhageners should have easy access to child care in the city’s

day care institutions, schools should be modern and attractive and

culture and leisure offers should be up-to-date. Up to 45,000 new

rented and owner-occupied homes of various sizes and price ranges

should be built to ensure homes for everybody. Disadvantaged areas

should be better integrated with the rest of the city. The many new

homes should contribute to creating life and variation in old as well

as new urban areas and should refl ect innovative and sustainable

architecture.

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CHALLENGES

70% OF WORLD POPULATION

WILL LIVE IN CITIES BY 2050

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORE SERVICES UNDER PRESSURE

Copenhagen has undergone some major changes since the late

1990s. New urban areas have emerged with more than 18,000 new

homes being built between 2000 and 2010. This has resulted in

pressure on local government core services which are necessary for

the city and everyday life. According to population forecasts, by

2025 there will be almost 22,000 more children and young people

under the age of 18 and around 33,000 more citizens between the

age of 18 and 29. This means that more schools, day care

institutions, sports and cultural facilities are required in the years

ahead together with investments in an expanded infrastructure.

MORE HOMES REQUIRED

With More Copenhageners on the way, more homes are needed in

the city. Larger homes which are affordable to young families and

fi rst-home buyers as well as more housing for young people are on

the city’s wish list. Small and outdated homes for senior citizens

should be refurbished and adapted to future needs. Some of the

city’s social housing areas are monotonous in terms of architecture

and functionality. Efforts should be made to create more variation,

among other things by fi tting in business functions and workplaces

to attract visitors from outside to such areas.

DISADVANTAGED RESIDENTIAL AREAS

In the autumn of 2010, central government identifi ed ten

disadvantaged residential areas in Copenhagen. The City of

Copenhagen and central government have a joint responsibility to

lift these areas and at the same time reduce the social and health

inequalities. The quality of life in troubled residential areas should

be increased by ensuring more integration with the remaining city,

both socially and physically. The large health and income related

differences across neighbourhoods will divide the city, if steps are

not taken to prevent it.

MORE LEISURE ACTIVITIES, RECREATIONAL AREAS AND CULTURAL OFFERS

Copenhagen needs to prioritise a broader framework for its cultural

life, an active leisure life and recreational offers in the green areas.

The green areas should inspire adults who do not usually exercise to

use the areas actively in their leisure life. With more Copenhageners

in the future, new and improved cultural and leisure facilities as

well as new green areas are required. Temporary city space, city

gardens, playing fi elds, local sports facilities and halls should be

established.

SAFETY COULD BE BETTER

Compared with other cities, Copenhagen is a city with low crime

rates where the citizens feel relatively safe. Unfortunately, not all

citizens feel safe and some have experienced crime. This applies

particularly to areas which attract many visitors from the outside.

Also, there are areas in which crime, physical isolation and a bad

reputation combine to compromise safety.


OUR SOLUTION

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1. CONSTRUCTION FOR THE CITY’S CHILDREN

Copenhagen is an attractive city for families with children. For this

reason, we focus on expanding our day care services and schools to

make room for the city’s children. Our aim is that all children in

Copenhagen should be offered day care services within four

kilometres from their home.

2. INCREASED FOCUS ON DISADVANTAGED RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND URBAN RENEWAL

The City of Copenhagen has identifi ed six areas which cover the ten

disadvantaged residential areas identifi ed by central government.

When it comes to the city’s general development, these six areas

are lagging behind and they are in special need of social

development and physical investments. In this respect, the City of

Copenhagen is preparing a ’Policy for disadvantaged urban areas’

which is to result in an actual strategy for troubled residential areas.

3. IMPROVED CONDITIONS FOR CULTURE AND LEISURE

The City of Copenhagen will continue to restore and modernise the

city’s worn-down cultural and leisure facilities and build new ones.

We aim to fi nd innovative and unconventional solutions, e.g. by

placing culture houses, libraries and schools in the same building.

At the same time, our urban design of new and existing areas

should favour non-organised sports and ensure a good framework

for a healthy and active leisure life. For instance, we want to

promote peaceful green lungs, super bike paths, combined sports

and play grounds, jogging paths, multi-purpose fi elds and city

beaches.

4. MORE CITY GARDENS AND GREEN SPOTS

The City of Copenhagen focuses on creating city gardens/small parks

which stimulate your senses, surprise you and encourage physical

exercise and recreation. In 2012, Copenhagen will have two new city

gardens, one at Litauens Plads on Vesterbro and one in Gammel

Valby. Also, we are working on planting more trees and other

plantation and on establishing green roofs and roof gardens to

make the city more green.

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K N O W L E D G E A N D B U S I N E S S I N C O P E N H A G E N

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KNOWLEDGE AND BUSINESS IN COPENHAGEN

BY 2025, COPENHAGEN WILL BE A KNOWLEDGE CITY ATTRACTING AND RETAINING FOREIGN STU-DENTS, RESEARCHERS, EMPLOYEES AND ENTERPRISES. GOING TOWARDS 2020, AVERAGE ANNUAL GROWTH SHOULD BE 5%. GROWTH AND PROSPERITY GO HAND IN HAND BECAUSE THE SECTORS WHICH THE CITY LIVES BY SUPPORT A GREENER, HEALTHIER AND MORE EXITING CITY

IMPROVED PHYSICAL FRAMEWORK FOR BUSINESSES

Enterprises’ conditions for achieving economic growth should

improve. These conditions include the physical framework, a well-

functioning public transport system and car access for enterprises

which need cars in their day-to-day operation. It should be easier to

be a small or medium sized enterprise in Copenhagen and it should

be easier to start a new enterprise. Going forward towards 2025, 2.8

million m2 of new commercial construction in Copenhagen is on the

drawing boards. In addition to improving basic conditions, public-

private collaboration should be strengthened through the

establishment of partnerships.

STRENGTHENING OF INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION

The quality of Copenhagen’s labour force should be boosted. The

level of education should be high and the share of Copenhageners

with short educations should be low. 95% of all young people born

in any given year should receive more than primary education and

the city’s public schools are an important source of students for

secondary and higher education. Copenhagen should be better at

attracting foreign students, researchers and employees.

International schools should be available, and integration efforts

should be in focus, ensuring fi rst-rate and inspiring study, research

and work environments. Copenhagen should spearhead research

and innovation within the health area.

INCREASING EMPLOYMENT

Employment must increase in Copenhagen and by 2025, 20,000 new

private jobs are needed in the city, especially within business

services, the retail trade, hotels and restaurants, education as well

as creative and maritime jobs. Hence, Copenhagen should attract

Danish and foreign enterprises which can help create jobs in the

city. Also, Copenhagen should be an attractive tourist destination

and a platform for international conferences and events.

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CHALLENGES

LACK OF QUALIFIED LABOUR

In Copenhagen and the rest of the Capital Region of Denmark,

qualifi ed labour will become an even scarcer resource over the next

ten years. According to forecasts, the capital region will lack more

than 100,000 skilled people while unskilled jobs will decrease

rapidly. Upgrading unskilled people and fi nding jobs to the many

people of working age who are out of work today is a huge

challenge. In order to attract bright heads, Copenhagen should be

able to offer housing, advisory services in respect of Danish rules

and systems and better integration and introduction into Danish

ways and traditions in the sports and leisure life. Copenhagen

should improve its skills in this respect.

THE PHYSICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENTERPRISES IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH

In a survey of the local business climate conducted by the

Confederation of Danish Industry, Copenhagen ranked as no. 83 out

of 96 municipalities. Enterprises’ growth conditions, including the

physical framework, should be improved. The city should make room

for modern industry and production which is compatible with life in

the city.

INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION WITH KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS

Only 34% of the capital’s enterprises are innovative and only 13%

collaborate with universities. Copenhagen’s framework for

innovative collaboration across knowledge institutions, enterprises

and public players should be optimised with a view to exploiting the

growth potential associated with exporting welfare initiatives and

environmental solutions.

TOURISM AND FOREIGN INVESTMENTS TO BE STRENGTHENED

Over the last 10 years, the number of hotel rooms in Copenhagen

has increased by around 40% and this larger capacity implies a

stronger need for attracting tourists. The City of Copenhagen should

be better at attracting and holding international events such as

knowledge-based congresses contributing to attracting

international enterprises and labour. Copenhagen is also lagging

behind when it comes to attracting foreign investments.

CONGESTION IMPAIRS MOBILITY

Every day, citizens and businesses waste around 160,000 hours in

traffi c jams. Experience from other cities show that the introduction

of congestion charges reduces traffi c jams and signifi cantly

improves passability. Also, the introduction of the metro city circle

line (Cityringen), will strengthen the alternative to cars

considerably, but public regional transport should also be

strengthened to encourage commuters to take the train.

ENTREPRENEURS FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES ARE NOT GROWING

Today, entrepreneurs account for the major part of Copenhagen’s

enterprises and they will continue to do so in the future, but only

few of these enterprises survive for more than two years. The City of

Copenhagen must be able to offer the right framework for the many

small enterprises and should help them grow, among other things

by stimulating their international perspectives.

90%OF ALL INNOVATIONHAPPENS IN METROPOLISES


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OUR SOLUTION

1. INVESTMENTS IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT – EMPLOYMENT FOR IDLE HANDS

The City of Copenhagen creates jobs for idle hands in the building

and construction sector by investing in urban development. Up to

2014, the City of Copenhagen will invest DKK 11 billion in 530

building and construction projects which will benefi t

Copenhageners of all ages and all neighbourhoods. During the

construction phase, the projects will create 11,000 jobs and increase

growth in the city.

2. BETTER TRAFFIC CONNECTIONS AND PARKING CAPACITY

The need for developing and planning a harbour tunnel still exists

and for this reason, central and local government have joined forces

to examine the possibilities of establishing an eastward by-pass

road in the form of a harbour tunnel. The purpose of the tunnel is to

improve accessibility to the city and contribute to reducing through

traffi c in the city centre. Also, the City of Copenhagen is examining

the required parking capacity for the entire city and its inhabitants

and business community. Furthermore, the regional railways should

be strengthened to ensure enterprises better access to labour from

all over Zealand.

3. HEALTHY GROWTH

Good health is a prerequisite for growth. Healthy growth is about

employment, investments and knowledge. Copenhagen focuses on

new solutions supporting its citizens’ health and encouraging private

enterprises and research and knowledge institutions to contribute

to meeting the challenges we are facing. This way, enterprises and

research and educational institutions contribute to developing better

and cheaper public services for the benefi t of citizens, employees

and the public sector. Also, new products and services are developed

which improve enterprises’ competitiveness and generate growth in

society.

4. IMPROVED PHYSICAL FRAMEWORK AND MARKETING OF COMMERCIAL AREAS

An overall plan should be prepared for Copenhagen’s ability to

match enterprises’ requirements. In collaboration with Copenhagen

Capacity and Invest in Denmark, the City of Copenhagen will promote

its commercial areas and market the city as a good place to invest in

and operate a business.

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C O P E N H A G E N A S A G R E E N G R O W T H M E T R O P O L I S

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COPENHAGEN AS A GREEN GROWTH METROPOLIS

BY 2025, COPENHAGEN WILL BE THE WORLD’S FIRST CARBON NEUTRAL CAPITAL AND HAVE A LEADING EDGE ON GREEN TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN EUROPE. ALSO, COPENHAGEN WILL BE THE NO. 1 BIKE CITY IN THE WORLD. THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT WILL REMAIN SUSTAINABLE, WHICH MEANS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GO HAND IN HAND

THE WORLD’S FIRST CARBON NEUTRAL CAPITAL

Copenhagen wants to become the world’s fi rst carbon neutral

capital by 2025, while at the same time increasing employment and

spurring growth. Copenhagen should continue to develop a

framework for joint urban solutions which have a positive impact on

the environment, growth and on the Copenhageners’ health.

Among other things, future district heating will be based on green

energy and the City of Copenhagen will work for the installation of

around 130 large wind turbines and retrofi t its own buildings.

GREEN MOBILITY

Copenhagen should promote accessibility with the world’s best

biking system and an up-to-date and coherent public transport

system. In the long term, the vision is that at least one third of all

driven traffi c in the city should be made by bike, at least one third

by public transport and not more than one third by car. Towards

2025, the aim is that the main part (at least two thirds) of growth in

total traffi c should be by green means of transport, i.e. walking, bike

and public transport, hence gradually developing more sustainable

traffi c patterns. Compared with 2011, the number of passengers in

public transport in Copenhagen should increase by 2% in 2015 and

by 20% in 2023. The target in terms of biking is that half of all trips

to and from work or educational institutions should be made by bike

in 2015. Also, the aim for pedestrians is an increase of 20% by 2015.

GREEN GROWTH LAB

Copenhagen should be a green growth lab, where enterprises from all

over the world can develop, test and showcase the most up-to-date

and inspiring environmental solutions and energy supply. Copenhagen

is acknowledged worldwide as a green and environmental-friendly

city, which should be exploited to create even better conditions for

the region’s cleantech enterprises and attract investments. During the

period 2011-2015, employment in cleantech enterprises should grow

by 20% in the capital region. With the development of Nordhavn, the

City of Copenhagen wishes to test and introduce major system

solutions covering e.g. geothermal energy, central solar collector

facilities and heat storage.

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CHALLENGES

FIERCE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION ON GREEN GROWTH

The word’s cities are fi ghting hard to top the green growth agenda.

Cities like Stockholm, Seoul and Singapore are already squeezing

Copenhagen in this competition. If the city does not have a clear

strategy and remain in control, Copenhagen is at risk of becoming

marginalised in low-growth Europe.

STRONGER CLEANTECH SECTOR REQUIRED

On a global scale, the cleantech sector is growing and this sector is

essential in the efforts to create the innovation required in the

climate area. The cleantech enterprises in the Copenhagen area

should be strengthened, if Copenhagen is to boost its

competitiveness on green growth and generate new jobs and

stronger growth. The City of Copenhagen has adopted massive

investments in green growth and climate initiatives which are

expected to generate around 1,400 new jobs (full-time equivalents)

in the years ahead.

PARTNERSHIPS, PLEASE!

Copenhagen is facing a serious challenge of ensuring the required

innovation and the competencies relevant for achieving the

ambitious carbon aims. For this reason, new innovative

collaboration forms should be developed between the City of

Copenhagen and private players and knowledge institutions to show

the way for public/private partnership.

REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS AND THE CITY’S ENERGY CONSUMPTION

The energy consumption accounts for around 75% of the city’s total

carbon emission. According to the green accounts for 2010,

Copenhagen emitted the same amount of carbon in 2010 as in 2005,

which was 2.5 million tonnes. Adjusted for the extra heating

requirement due to the cold winter in 2010, carbon emissions for

2010 were 4% lower than emissions in 2009. At the same time, the

number of citizens in Copenhagen increased by 6%, whereas the

electricity consumption increased by only 3% in the same period.

This indicates that carbon emissions and electricity consumption

have now decoupled from the city’s growth and this development

should be maintained.

ACCESSIBILITY IS CHALLENGED WITH THE INCREASING POPULATION

The number of cars in Copenhagen has increased over the past years

and motor traffi c in the city streets has increased by 5% over the

past 10 years. If motor traffi c increases in line with the city’s growth,

it would imply declining average speed, more time lost due to traffi c

jams, increased air pollution and higher carbon emissions. However,

from 2000 to 2010, biking traffi c increased by 13% and the number

of passengers using public transport has gone up since 2002, mainly

due to the metro.

75% OF THE WORLD´S CO2 EMISSIONS

IT ORIGINATES FROM URBAN AREAS


OUR SOLUTION

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1. PARTNERSHIPS FOR DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS

The City of Copenhagen establishes partnerships for green urban

solutions ensuring a reduction of carbon emissions as well as

improving the framework for green mobility, green energy

production and green energy consumption. Joint projects between

the City of Copenhagen, energy companies, enterprises, land

owners, investors, universities and other public authorities will

result in innovation and serve as a showcase for a future sustainable

city.

2. EXPANSION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND GREEN MOBILITY

The City of Copenhagen wants to encourage both new and old road

users to choose greener and healthier means of transport. The

urban development will be concentrated around stations and

existing and new railways and metro lines. With the plan Bynet

2018, we aim to integrate buses, metro and S-trains, creating an

effi cient public transport system. Also, we will examine the

possibilities of expanding the metro system and constructing a light

rail line. Cyclists and pedestrians will also be integrated into the

public transport plans. Finally, we are working with electric and

hydrogen vehicles.

3. NEW SYSTEM SOLUTIONS IN COPENHAGEN SUITABLE FOR EXPORT

We want to give cleantech enterprises the opportunity to test new,

green solutions on a larger scale in our new urban development

areas, such as Nordhavn, including new energy forms, district

cooling and waste handling. With the right promotion, Copenhagen

could become a leading player in these areas and the cleantech

enterprises could export their solutions to other cities.

4. RETROFITTING OF BUILDINGS

In order to achieve the ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral

by 2025, the City of Copenhagen will invest in retrofi tting of its own

buildings. In addition, we need to enter into new collaboration

forms with private players on retrofi tting of the remaining stock of

buildings.

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F O C U S E D U R B A N D E V E L O P M E N T

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VISION


With 637,000 Copenhageners by 2025, we need to focus on urban

development enabling the City of Copenhagen to target its

investments. Depending on the demographical changes in the city

and on the size of government and private investments, the City of

Copenhagen can achieve its visions by prioritising the development

areas.

By supporting urban development in the areas already benefi ting

from government or private investments, we can achieve synergies

and intensify the effect of these investments by adding local

government investments and for this purpose, the City of

Copenhagen will identify new action plan areas each year. Hence,

focused urban development is a dynamic tool which can identify

new areas on a current basis, while other areas are cut out as they

are completed.

Our efforts concerning the action plans and focused urban

development should be viewed in the context of the efforts already

being made within urban renewal, overall plans and troubled urban

areas.

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Focused urban development

ACTION PLAN AREAS IDENTIFIED IN 2011

NORDVESTThe area covers Bispebjerg Hospital, Nørrebro Station and Dorthea-

vej. Bispebjerg Hospital will be expanded at a cost of DKK 3.98

billion and the Bispebjerg area will be opened and integrated with

the city with better connections to the surrounding neighbourhoods.

The area around Nørrebro Station (where a new metro station will

open in 2018) requires a strengthening of coherence and safety.

Furthermore, the effects of the many projects in the area should be

strengthened. The area around Dortheavej will see the construction

of a youth centre, culture house, library and a neighbourhood square,

a traffi c safety project and new social housing projects (Almen

Bolig+). Better relations should be created between users and citizens

in the area and the public space should be exploited in a better way.

SCIENCE CITY NORTH CAMPUSIn the years ahead, investments will be made in the modernisation

of the university facilities of the North Campus (Niels Bohr Science

Park, Panum and Pharma Science Park), Copenhagen University

Hospital and public transport. Central government investments in

the area amount to more than DKK 4 billion and a development plan

has been prepared for the area covering a strategy and various

project proposals. The aim is to ensure better physical correlation in

the area, to strengthen collaboration between the University of

Copenhagen, the business sector and the city and to upgrade the

area in general.

VALBY SOUTHOnce the relocation of the former industrial area has been completed,

Valby Syd should be prepared for establishing new interesting neigh-

bourhoods which maintain the historical references. The construction

of the new railway line between Copenhagen and Ringsted will pave

the way for new road and path systems. With Ny Ellebjerg station as the

main hub, Valby Syd will become an important traffi c hub in the city.

SYDHAVNSluseholmen consists of residential blocks surrounded by canals and

is characterised by its special maritime environment. Sydhavn will

be completed and developed with residential areas, cultural and

service industries, providing homes for many new Copenhageners.

Sydhavn supports the use of the harbour for recreational purposes,

upgrades the waterfront and ensures the connection to the

surrounding neighbourhoods and the rest of the city.

CARLSBERG

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NORDHAVNNordhavn could become one of the largest urban development

projects in Scandinavia and the ambition is for Nordhavn to become

a model for sustainable urban development. Hence, Nordhavn must

be prepared for future developments. The area has room for a potential

40,000 inhabitants and a corresponding number of workplaces.

Nordhavn should contribute to realising the vision of Copenhagen

as a green lab for sustainable urban solutions and make room for

many new Copenhageners.

NORDØST AMAGERThe area of Nordøstamager has attracted substantial investments

over the past years in public transport, including the metro, and in

recreational facilities, such as Amager Strandpark and the coming

marina. The area is close to the airport but also contains worn-down

industrial areas which could be exploited much better. The area

could potentially attract enterprises and hence workplaces to the

city. Amager Strandpark and the marina could also be deployed in a

better way, which would help improve safety in the area.

ØRESTADØrestad is bordering on areas of natural beauty with easy access to

the city centre. Over the past few years, Ørestad has developed into

an effi cient, modern city with residential and commercial areas and

rapid transit public transport. In addition, the neighbourhood is

well-known for its architecture. This development must continue to

complete the Ørestad area. The completion of Ørestad should

contribute to ensuring room for the many new Copenhageners, who

would like to live close to areas of natural beauty and the city, and

to attracting enterprises requiring a large domicile and fast access

to the capital region, Sweden and the rest of the world.

KØDBYEN AND POLITITORVETThe area from Kødbyen (the old meat district) to Polititorvet covers

Kødbyen, Kalvebod Brygge, which will be expanded by Kalvebod

Bølgen, Falckhuset and Polititorvet, which is to be developed. This

urban development will contribute to generating growth and jobs,

e.g. in creative trades, and to improving the use of public transport

and the relations to the surrounding areas. Also, the various projects

are to ensure attractive access to new leisure activities, a good

connection between city and waterfront and support the use of the

harbour for recreational purposes.

The City of Copenhagen, Municipal Plan 2011

can be downloaded at:

www.kk.dk/kp11

or acquired by request to:

City of Copenhagen

Financ Administration


City Hall

1599 Copenhagen V

Telephone 3366 3366

Have questions about Municipal Plan 2011,

please send an email to:

[email protected]

See The Digital Municipal Plan 2011 to:

www.kk.dk\kp11

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