Exploring the New Canals in Copenhagen - with Mikael from The Life-Sized City 

ALSO! It DOES FEEL very far out from the city center and all the neilouhoods after that. It was kind of a pain commuting, if you've got no bike or can't/don't want to ride one, you're kind of left with really poor bus service, no metro, commuter train is kind of far to just walk there casually, and if you wanna take the ferry, you really gotta nail your timings. In the end that disconnection to the rest of the city were the reason I moved.

yeah thee bad quality and for example flooded cellars is very often the case with the new buildings, areas like ørestad, sluseholmen sydhavn(the area in the video), nordhavn, amager strand. not to mention the big scandals on njalsgade islandsbrygge! the quality is very bad, the planning of the apartments too. made with cheap labour. Its often foreign investors who buy and make these buildings, not even danes. And then we can pay very high price to live there. Its like they just try to maximize their income. these places have almost become a symbol for corruption and rich vs poor, made for rich people but not even be properly functional.

Cool! Thanks! Supermarkets often follow density, so they wait a bit before moving in.

There is actually supermarkets and shops, and also some cafe's, I'd actually worked on a floating restaurant, but there might still be more to come.

Interesting to read your perspectives! I'm also considering to move to Sydhavn soon but the only thing that concerns me is the lack of social locations, e.g. bars, cafés, etc. How do you see this living there for 6 years? Is there much of a community?

There is also some houseboat communitys in the area.

The area he was paddling through is only about 50 meters from a houseboat community. :D

I'm not a fan of most new urban development, but that neighbourhood is cool

Expensive as..........:(

@@steenjacobsen1474 I imagine. Quiet neighbourhood with water access and community garden with easy access to the city ? Sounds like an upper middle class dream housingdenmark.com/en/premium/house/201702700/75-m2-apartment-kobenhavn-sv Ho wow, you were not kidding

Well.... www.thelocal.dk/20141112/danes-the-best-non-native-english-speakers-in-the-world

Hi there Mark. I live in that neighborhood, and one thing I REALLY love is that each yard is actually public. Each one has 4 entrances and everyone can go through them. So when you go to the bus or just for a walk, you actually walk through different yards. The cool thing about that is that fx people with kids frequent neighboring yards for the playgrounds, which create community across the whole neighborhood. This is different from traditional Copenhagen yards, where they are mostly one way in from the street and it's mostly locked.

Most of the streets, big trees have been planted even before the buildings is finish, there is also a green corridor, but it is to sparesome, narrow, hopefully there will soon be a bridge across the harbour, so, the one side can have easy acces to a large green area, and the other side short distance to the new Metro-line, but You got a point, and many CPH'ers agree with you.

Where I live, there had come many balconies, but in our building, it is not so attractive because of shadow and sun-direction. Some streets are to trafficed and noisy, but then they might have in the backyard, so there could be different reasons, and also as more in a building who whish to have, it is cheaper for each of them because of the set-up costs, but in general, there is a balcony-boom these years. The city is getting greener, and traffic got calmed and so on.

Thanks! Not my wife, though. But she's lovely.

You realise I'm in a different country, right? Maybe a Dutch person who is actually in that city could make one :-) Also: copenhagenizeindex.eu/

Copenhagen is the best Cycle-Capitol in the world, Holland is the most developed Cycle-Country in the world, and Utrecht might be the most developed Cycle-City in the world.

Good idea. Although in the Copenhagen episode of my TV series, we do a great segment on Christiania

This year 2021 is the 50-year of Christiania, I was one of the very first settlers, day two, even that I never lived there, but my younger freind needed a new home, as he got 'unclear' with his father, and it was where the smiths have office now, where they make the so'called christiania load-bike. The large generations of young people made it possible. There was not so many 'alternative' places for the many young people, one of the first places was Huset i Magsstræde, but it was closed after confrontation with the police, then it moved to a abandoned cigar factory next to Christiania, all kinds of 'stuff' were dealed there, and then it moved in to the abandoned military compound. Only very few places where ready for living to move in, the rest was empty naked broken glass every where. But from day one, it was the new hash-marked, in a spirit of idealism, non-profit and so on. Gilbert made the first little shop in a bunker, Morgenstedet, the Morning Place was the first cafe like place, but in the opposite end, from where it is now, Electric Ladyland were the first music-play-place, the hash-center were soon named Pusher-street. The first many years I was asked to make a restaurant, but nothing was sure if it would survive or being closed, most of Chr.'s time they lived with this uncertainty. Well, for long time Christiania have been the most cycle-un-freindly part of Copenhagen, but only because of the corona pandemic and quarantine CPH got the chance to pave a short distance, which looked like a bomb-crater, by purpose, to avoid cyclists. Based on a paranoid mind-set. CPH want to make a new bridge for bicycles, so the old one can be for the pedestrians, but the 'Freetown' block the realisation. In stead they made a serial of chicanes on the new pavement. Freetown my bare.

It was great news!

pretty sure its a map of Paris

@@Munchausenification it's a map of different cities. At the end of every life sized city episode he gets a tatoo about that city

@@leonefoscolo Nice to know. That is a very good idea

It's a salt-water harbour and one doo-doo is hardly going to have an impact. Thousands of birds and fish do it all day long.

@@16nine Good point.

BTW, what do you think about running lanes? A few cities in Spain have put some in and a lot of proposals include running lanes.

He literally explained in this video that the corona situation has forced him to stay home instead of the global reporting he usually does.

@@Kvadraten376 I know, yet he proceeds to talk as if he's never been there. But yes i know about his 'work'

Copenhagen is the best cycle-capitol. and Holland is the most developed cycle-country.