COPENHAGEN | A Daily dose

[Austinlee]

I like this one:

It looks like a big, major city from this angle.

[FREKI]

Originally Posted by PA Pride

It looks like a big, major city from this angle.

The metro has 1,9mil and the urban area around 1,1mil - Copenhagen Municipal alone has 500.000 so while it's no Sao Paulo it's not exactly tiny either..

Here's an overview to give you an idea of the scale ( 30km is 18.64 Miles )

And please note that Copenhagen is very sprawly and not much of the suburban areas aren't visiable on the pic..

To get an idea of the inner city's size I surgest visiting this thread ( birds eye views from Live Local ) http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=141144

[Bergenser]

^Cool picture, it really shows it's big size.
By scandinavian standards Copenhagen is huge.

[FREKI]

Following the bus trend from last picture I thought I'd show a bus stop close up - here you can see the GPS based timers

The big S in the background is a signal for the S-Trains that connects the suburbs in all directions with the city
The station itself is Vesterbro Station and it's sub street level, so not much is showing here ( not a big station anyway )

[Austinlee]

I already know Copenhagen is a major city. I was just saying that picture is flattering.

[FREKI]

My bad

[FREKI]

I've so far been very focussed on the inner city - but that is about to change so here's Frederiksberg one of the residential districts surrounding the center

The district is actually a municipal ( "Frederiksberg Municipal" ) that over time have been completely surrounded by Copenhagen municipal
It has a population of 92.200 and a desity of 10.600 per km2

It's imo one of the nicest districts ( and home to the greatest park the Frederiksberg Park I showed earlier ) and I love going for a walk there..

Here you have the intersection between Godthåbsvej and Falkoner Alle

[FREKI]

Today I'll show you all another residential district Østerbro - a classy part north of the center

The district is home to 83.000 people and among other things Parken the national football stadium

[M II A II R II K]

The weather sure looks good for this time of year.

[FREKI]

These are just random pics from my archives - while we did have sunny weather today it will be a while before we get any leafs

But the cherrytrees stated blossoming yesterday - thank you global warming

[James Bond Agent 007]

How about some pictures in the snow!

[FREKI]

Originally Posted by James Bond Agent 007

How about some pictures in the snow!

We very rarely get any.. even the temps are rarely below 0C here..

[FREKI]

But just for you I do have a pic from 2006 - from the day after a white out

This is Flintholm Station - a combined S-Train and Metro station with a bus hub at ground level


I didn't kid about the whiteout btw - people used to snow would laugh at how little it takes to bring Denmark to a halt..

Most people ( like me ) drive on summer tires all year long, so when the temp do drop or snow do fall we're fucked

[FREKI]

Today we'll take a brief look at what is probable the most renouned neighbourhood in the Kingdom Nørrebro

This district have a long history as a worker's hood and in the beginning of the last century suffered greatly from an overpopulation crammed into small worker apartments with lacking sanitary ficilities.. this became too much for the city in the 60s and a large scale renovation and sanitation program was started, understandable not all the residents were happy for being rehoused further out in the new suburbs far away from all they knew - and as the spirit of the time was very rebelious large riots broke out - the city was cleaned up, but the rebelious attitude stayed and it have since then been the home to numourous riots, some of the largests was the immigration riots in the 90's, the anti EU ones and lately the ones after the Youth House was demolished ( a house leftist activitsts had been illegally squatting in and many many years )

But despite all that, it's IS a very nice neighbourhood - it's like a melting pot of everything - from muslim teahouses, dirty worker pubs to high tech trendy bars with art way beyond my capabilities of appreciation

If you find yourself tired of cuteness and cozyness of the oldtown I will strongly recommend taking a stroll down the mainstreet of this district: Nørrebrogade

Here we see that street and the start of the district from the Queen Louise Bridge

[Bergenser]

Originally Posted by FREKI

and lately the ones after the Youth House was demolished ( a house leftist activitsts had been illegally squatting in and many many years )

I remember waching that on TV...

BTW those yellow busses reminds me of Bergen as our busses is yellow as well.

[SHiRO]

Keep m coming!

[FREKI]

^Will do mate


Today we will take a look at a "newer" part of the Inner city - The area between Nørreport - the northern gate and Queen Louise Bridge that crosses the Lake defenses - shown last time

In the old days Copenhagen was as mentioned before surounded by water on all sides - some areas manmade canals and other areas the ocean - and back then it had 3 gates connecting the city with Zealand, each called after it's kompas direction ( those directions would later also be name to the new districts on the other side of the gates )

In the last pic I showed you Nørrebro - wich means "Northern Bridge" - as you had to cross the northern bridge to get there - to get to the northern bridge you'd had to go trough the northern gate Nørreport - later the Lakes where made having you cross one gate and two bridges - and inbetween the first and second water defenses there was a raised embankment with guns and baracks and towers and all that stuff

These days the gates are located downtown and Nørreport is now known for the Train and Metro Station located on where the gate used to be ( "Nørreport Station - the busiest in all the Kingdom btw ) - and this is also where you exit the old town and move into a "newer district" from 1860 - build on what used to be the old defenses that was torn down as the city had expanded greatly outwards so there was little point if keeping them

This new district now follows the Lakes ( also mentioned before ) on one side and the borders of the old town on the other - and much of the old defenses were kept and made in to several parks - the most known of them is Tivoli that is now an amusement park - the world's second oldest to be precise

It's is very classy area and offers some of the most beautiful buildings in the city and some of the best parks

This pic from Frederiksborggade gives a good idea about how the area looks and feel

[FREKI]

Okay, I've showed you 2 of the 3 mainroads leaving the old towns and going trough the Zealand districts named after the gates they were located infront - and that will mean there's one district left - Vesterbro

Vesterbro ( meaning Western Bridge ) is home to Downtown Copenhagen with the Central Station and the Metropol Zone - and it's home to Copenhagen's red light district centered around the Istedgade street west of the Central Station..
Believe it or not but this was where the modern day porn culture comes from - the populairty of it in the district made the goverment legalize porn as the first western nation in 1967 - and naughty people from around the world flocked there

You can still find sex shops and brothels ( prostitution is legal here as long as they pay their taxes ) but with the large scale renovation projects of the early 90's it's now just as much a family district with schools, great shopping and a waterfront area being turned into one of the most exitic new areas of the city - and as mentione it has the downtown area at the border with the old town


Another thing about today's pic is that it's actually a winter pic taken November 16th 2006 - usually our winters are pretty grey, but once in a while we get a perfect blue crispy sky - I love those days!


Anyway enough talk, here is Vesterbrogade - the districts main street - in time I'll get back to some of the other stuff mentioned

[FREKI]

Today we'll visit Christianshavn a small habour district located on an island between the inner city and the island of Amager

It's home to little over 10.000 people and offers some very cozy canals and charming old buildings to stroll along
It's also home to Christiania a "hippy freetown" mostly known for soft drugs - that was sold openly from small booths in the past

[FREKI]

Today a picture of Downtown seen from the City Hall Tower last winter..

It's also the first day with my new logo