Kalvebod Brygge
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Kalvebod Brygge or Havneholmen is a waterfront district in Copenhagen
, Denmark
. The area is part of the Kongens Enghave
, the southern part of Copenhagen. The area was heavily developed in the 1990s and is dominated by large office buildings and parking lots. This is often used as an example of poor city planning, which limited access to the waterfront for pedestrians and created large, vacant and uninviting areas during weekends and nights.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. The area is part of the Kongens Enghave
Kongens Enghave
Kongens Enghave , also known as Sydhavnen , is a district in southern Copenhagen. The area has historically been one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Copenhagen, dissected by major transport corridors and characterized by social problems as well as industry along the harbour-front.Since the turn...
, the southern part of Copenhagen. The area was heavily developed in the 1990s and is dominated by large office buildings and parking lots. This is often used as an example of poor city planning, which limited access to the waterfront for pedestrians and created large, vacant and uninviting areas during weekends and nights.