Is This Europe's Best Designed Neighborhood? 

You see many trees in harbors in general do you?

@@basquat76 Pardon, I didn’t realize you have selective vision. I’ll tell you that I do see sidewalks and generous pathways along the waterfront.

@@nosedive1st I'm sorry is that a yes or a no?

@@nosedive1st it does seem like there could be so much greenery I thought as well

In CPHs history, there have Never been so many trees as today, I'm in heart of Vesterbro, within the last year, about 500 trees is planted, 10-15-20-25 years old, Havnevigen metrostation opens in few weeks, yesterday I'd counted 85 trees, might be the most green metrostation-area, all metrostations had added plenty of trees, and also other vegetaton, Enghave station got more than three times number of trees, today I read on a little sign, that more than 5.000 insect freindly flowers plus more than 10.000 'onions', it is a amazing wiev, and full of insects. In my backyard, 150x 30 M.is 70 grown up trees, 40 years ago there was none, in a nabo-karre', is planted 37 new few monts ago. Sydhavnen also a new harbour quarter, has trees in all steets, many planted before constuction were finished, many canals, and 40 bridges, You will be surprised. Most of the harbour front in CPH is green in the buttom. there is streets where it's not possible, but it happends, they find or create space for one or few. It might be 1-2 years ago I'd 'inspected' Nordhavn on cycle, it might be less green than Sydhavn, I dont remember, but there is much more trees than before the project. Video didn focus that much, mostly from above perspective 80 Kejser-linde trees waiting to be planted in the new Carlsberg, as already have many trees and green niches, they might be 25-30 year when they get planted. I'm from 1954, cycled CPH thin, since I was Six, visited 80 countries, 200 of the biggest cities and many more. Well, still many more trees wait to be planted, yaeh here is far more trees than never before.

Its ridiculous with how pretty the old parts of town are that architects and developers have been allowed to build something so ugly and souless

It’s distinct. That’s about all I’ll give it…

and I love it !

I agree with you, Markus

I agree, although you ask where the trees are and I see many trees but they're all dormant for the winter. With no leaves. In many of the shots if you pause and look around for a minute you can see a decent amount of trees. Yes they're young but it's a new development and has only young trees as one would expect.

They have a decent amount of trees and green space, and usually expensive cities are also cities where you make more money in the first place, and where there are more opportunities to do so, than anywhere else nearby

@@JustinJamesJeep I mean, there are trees. But very few. If you look carefully, many streets don't have any or very few. Not even in big parts of the waterfront. For an area like that, they could have added way more trees. Especially considering it's a Scandinavian city. My point is that there is way too much asphalt and concrete that could have been used for greenery. I'm also talking about the other parts of central Copenhagen. I've been there many times and it always surprises me how few trees there are. Amsterdam streets are much greener, but Amsterdam doesn't have as many parks or nature areas nearby.

@@carstarsarstenstesenn I have a different perspective regarding the trees, but that's fine.

Vauban is great, interesting history, eco friendly, TOD and lots of greenery.

There has to be a balance in building height and distance between buildings. A city where no building is over 5 floors, but there is no space between buildings and the streets are narrow can have a worse impact on sunlight than a city which has many buildings over 20 floors. It's definitely a weakness of cities like Paris and Vienna, which are otherwise beautiful cities.

@@XandateOfHeaven Generally a building that is 20 floors will create much more shade than spreading out multiple blocks of 6-7 stories. Especially in the DK climate with little sun in winter this greatly impacts the experience of the Urban space at street level

There is more to beautiful architecture than neoclassical. Plenty of modernism styles are beautiful: Art Deco, Vienna Secession, Streamline Moderne, etc

Houthavens in Amsterdam looks pretty cool, though it's not all that new

The size of the country doesn't really matter. Singapore is a city state and one of the most expensive cities in Asia. Also Copenhagen is not expensive compared to the main hubs in the USA like San Francisco, LA, New York. The incredibly high prices for developeable land in Copenhagen are mainly a function of that there is almost none left. Nordhavn is already an artificial island. It's the suburbification that bites Copenhagen in the foot here. Areas like Sundby on Amager, Gentofte in the north, the West of Valby, Brønshøj-Husum and Vanløse consist mostly of detached single family homes with a density in the 3-4k per km² range. If you would have built it more like Frederiksberg C or really any of the Bro-kvarter (Amagerbro, Vesterbro, Nørrebro, Østerbro) you could have housed up to 8 times as many people there while simultaneously providing more public functions. And it's no like these places are far away. From the western periphery in Husum - which is about as far out as you can get in Copenhagen municipality to the Indre By it's around 8km - and a lot of people these days would say Nørrebro is the real centre, so that's even shorter.

sure if you have a car

@@carstarsarstenstesenn I've never said otherwise, but at least they have a house

@@agustinarcusa7696 The point being required to own a car significantly decreases the affordability of a place. A neighborhood like this may be expensive, but residents are more likely (and able) to have money from not owning a car (and also from living in a city with a lot more opportunities to make a killing than somewhere in Texas that you have to drive 30+ min to and from). People in these cities make more money and they spend a lot less of it on cars than Texans.

​@@carstarsarstenstesenn I get what you are saying, but if you have to pay 500k for an appartment instead of 250k you dont have more. I would also point tha texans have much more disposable income. Finally, dont get me wrong I dont like suburbia, but thinking eurpean cities are a paradise is not real, same thing with cities like amsterdam.

@@agustinarcusa7696 Never said it was perfect. Copenhagen is more comparable to New York than any other city in the US, and even then, it's apples to oranges.