"The City as Living Room - Urban Renewal with Space for the Socially Disadvantaged" is a publication in Danish that offers inspiration and tools for how urban planners and architects can create well-functioning cities and urban spaces where there is space for the socially disadvantaged and everyone else.

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How can we create urban spaces where alcoholics, homeless people and drug addicts can live side by side with families with children, the elderly and young people? How do we design squares, parks and public spaces that promote coexistence and constructive encounters between different people?

Project purpose
The purpose of the project is to collect and develop new knowledge about the use of urban space by socially disadvantaged people. Based on this knowledge collection, we will formulate a number of strategies for and guidelines on how working with urban development, urban renewal, area-based initiatives and concrete design can create space for constructive meetings between socially disadvantaged people and other groups in the city. There are already urban spaces where different user groups move side by side – this applies to “Sumpen” in Nørrebroparken, Mølleplads in Aalborg and Hovedbanegården in Copenhagen, for example. Kenneth Balfelt Team, Hausenberg and Spektrum Arkitekter have screened and analyzed a number of different cases with a view to learning from experiences here.

 

Read the publication here

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Read the report in Weekendavisen below:

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