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Territorial Review Copenhagen - Region Hovedstaden

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Figure 3.5. Dominance of the core city over the metropolitan area (in terms<br />

of population)<br />

Source: OECD secretariat‘s calculations on the basis of the OECD <strong>Region</strong>al Database<br />

The structural reform has weakened the position of <strong>Copenhagen</strong><br />

The City of <strong>Copenhagen</strong> lost its special position after the reform. As<br />

mentioned in previous sections, the structural reform did not solve<br />

<strong>Copenhagen</strong>‘s problems of co-ordination and fragmentation. In addition, it<br />

brought an end to the special position of the City of <strong>Copenhagen</strong> and of<br />

Frederiksberg. Since these were simultaneously both a municipality and a<br />

county, they had a wide range of responsibilities. In health care, they jointly<br />

established the <strong>Copenhagen</strong> Hospital Corporation, which was considered to<br />

be moderately successful. Its tasks were transferred to the Capital <strong>Region</strong>.<br />

Tasks that municipalities and counties had delegated to the Greater<br />

<strong>Copenhagen</strong> Authority were transferred away, most importantly public<br />

transport; part of these responsibilities were transferred to a new company<br />

called Movia and regional planning was to a large extent centralised in the

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