Sundholm Including You (Copenhagen)

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Sundholm Including You

Copenhagen

Denmark

Goals

Dissemination of lessons learned

• Enhance integrated and participative

action planning at local level

Activities

• Meet with the group in effective way

• Run the group and co-produce a “local

action plan”

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Copenhagen and the 12 local councils

Copenhagen 1500

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Islands Brygge 1929

Islands Brygge 1929

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Sundholm 1908

Sundholm

Labor camp founded 1905-1908

• Camp for vagrants, beggars, destitutes

and prostitutes

• Located in the countryside South of

Copenhagen

• Self sufficient with farming etc.

Forced labour until 1976

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Sundholm 1908

Sundholm 1910

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Sundholm

Change of status 2000

• Food, medical care, shelter

• Shared house for alcoholics

Områdeløft (improvement plan) 2008-2014

• WIMBY – Welcome In My Back Yard

More than 25 different organisations –

public sector, NGOs, social enterprises

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New housing:

Pixie Haverne (Pixie Gardens)

Pixie Haverne I

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Pixie Haverne I

Pixie Haverne I

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Zooming Out;

Copenhagen Grows in Size

• 1,000 more people each month

The City Gets More Dense

• Development of previously “forgotten”

areas

New users move in

• Students stay in Copenhagen instead of

moving out when they start a family

• Old users move out?

Pixie Haverne I

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The Local Support Group

Organisation

• Part of Sundholmskvarterets Områdeløft

2008-2014

• Amager Vest Lokaludvalg is involved as

local political anchor

• Steering group with participation from

municipality, inhabitants etc.

Involvement With

The Local Support Group

André Just Vedgren

• Vice chairman of Amager Vest

Lokaludvalg

• Manager of Amager Vest Lokaludvalg’s

workgroup for planning

• (Maybe) Part of Steering Group

• Candidate for Borgerrepræsentationen

(city council) November 19, 2013

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Plans for The Next Month

Conference – First Thematic Seminar: Conflicts, dysfunctions and changes in

using public spaces, April 18-19, 2013

• USER, Sundholmskvarterets Områdeløft,

Center for Bydesign

• Day 1: Seminars with lead partner and

lead experts. Open to public

• Day 2: Workshops with USER cities

Steering Group meeting April 28, 2013

• Founding “Sundholms Venner” (Friends of

Sundholm; forum for all users and groups)

Delivery of Local Action Plan

Delivered by implementation

• Build, invite, and revise

• Formation groups/coordinating groups

Main challenge: Long term development

• What happens when Sundholmskvarterets

Områdeløft no longer exists and the users

are left to themselves?

Part of solution

• Sundholms Venner (forum) and Amager

Vest Lokaludvalg (political)/Center for

Bydesign (municipality)

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