The City as a Living Room - Urban Renewal with Room for the Socially Disadvantaged is a publication that provides inspiration and tools for urban planners and architects to create well-functioning cities and urban spaces where there is room for the socially disadvantaged and everyone else. 

 

How do 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? 

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Aim of the project
The aim of the project is to collect and develop new knowledge about the use of urban spaces by socially marginalized people. Based on this knowledge, we will formulate a set of strategies and guidelines on how urban development, urban regeneration, area-based initiatives and concrete design can create spaces for constructive encounters between socially vulnerable people and other groups in the city. There are already urban spaces where different user groups move side by side - such as 'Sumpen' in Nørrebroparken, Mølleplads in Aalborg and the Central Station in Copenhagen. Kenneth Balfelt Team, Hausenberg and Spektrum Arkitekter have studied and analyzed a number of different cases to learn from their experiences.

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