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Territorial Review Copenhagen - Region Hovedstaden

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NOTES<br />

1 Those projects started as pilot projects in three neighbourhoods in the<br />

City of <strong>Copenhagen</strong> – Kgs. Enghave in Vesterbro, Holmbladsgade in<br />

Amager and Femkanten in the northwest – and later extended to the<br />

Nørrebro Park neighbourhood and Kvarterløft Northwest. These areas<br />

were chosen because of different social problems: unemployment, high<br />

outward migration, run-down housing and traffic problems. These areas<br />

improved and fostered changes that have made the areas more attractive<br />

and the citizens‘ outlook more positive (Danish Building Research<br />

Institute, 2008). Significant work has been devoted to restructuring<br />

housing projects that isolated the poor, most notably in Hvidovre‘s<br />

Avedøre Stationby, where 6 000 low-income residents live in the area<br />

isolated from the outer world. Low-income residents today are<br />

encouraged to leave ghettos and relocate into mixed-income subsidised<br />

units closer to the city centre.<br />

2 There are five regions and six <strong>Region</strong>al Growth Forums. The island of<br />

Bornholm, which forms part of the Capital <strong>Region</strong>, has its own <strong>Region</strong>al<br />

Growth Forum.<br />

3 Each finger develops its own strength. The Koge Finger in the south has<br />

attracted manufacturing and distribution/logistic companies because of its<br />

excellent transportation infrastructure, including its roads, railway and the<br />

port of Koge. The Roskilde Finger in the southwest has hosted researchoriented<br />

companies, due to its extensive technological infrastructure,<br />

including Roskilde University. The Frederikssund Finger in the northwest<br />

is known as ―the Silicon Valley of the Øresund <strong>Region</strong>‖, having many<br />

information and communications tehcnology (ICT) and biotech/pharma<br />

companies. The Hillerød Finger in the north also has many ICT and<br />

biotech/pharma companies. The lastly, the Helsingør Finger in the north is<br />

also strong in ICT and biotech/pharma, thanks to extensive infrastructure<br />

such as its research park, commercial port and proximity to Sweden.<br />

4 The City of <strong>Copenhagen</strong> prioritises development of unused sites on the<br />

harbour and river side in the Development Plan.<br />

5 The aim is to give vulnerable children the possibility for a coherent<br />

everyday life and a place to be when school is over. At the whole day

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