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The Finger Plan (Danish: Fingerplanen) is an urban plan from 1947 which provides a strategy for the development of the Copenhagen metropolitan area, Denmark. According to the plan, Copenhagen is to develop along five 'fingers', centred on S-train commuter rail lines, which extend from the 'palm', that is the dense urban fabric of central ...
The most widely accepted is the area which is strategically managed by the Finger Plan. The modern post 2007 version includes the four provinces Københavns by (Copenhagen city), Københavns omegn , Nordsjælland and Østsjælland , with a total land area of 2 778 km² and over 2 million inhabitants (16 March 2018;updated statistics from 1 ...
Christian Erhardt Bredsdorff, commonly known as Peter Bredsdorff, (1913–1981) was a Danish architect and urban planner who is remembered for his Finger Plan for the development of Copenhagen. In this connection, his name is included in the Danish Culture Canon. [1] [2]
The area of Metropolitan Copenhagen is defined by the Finger Plan. [106] Since the opening of the Øresund Bridge in 2000, commuting between Zealand and Scania in Sweden has increased rapidly, leading to a wider, integrated area. Known as the Øresund Region, it has 4.1 million inhabitants—of whom 2.7 million (August 2021) live in the Danish ...
In 1949, Copenhagen Municipality implemented the Finger Plan: a policy stating that the city should develop urban clusters along its five outreaching rapid public transport arteries. [7] This early example of transit orientated development resonates with Howard’s ideal of developing periphery communities linked with productive urban centres. [8]
Although East Zealand (NUTS-3 level) belongs to healthcare Region Zealand (NUTS-2 level), in other respects (like public transport, road maintenance, metropolitan future planning, known as the Finger Plan in all versions since 1949, regional radio and television etc.) it belongs to the Metropolitan Area of Greater Copenhagen. This has been the ...
The Danish Town Planning Institute (Danish: Dansk Byplanlaboratorium) is an independent, self-owned institution based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It arranges the annual Danish Town Planning Conference and has instituted the Danish Urban Planning Award in collaboration with the Architects' Association of Denmark. The institute also arranges courses ...
The 'finger-plan' of Copenhagen. The new light rail will connect most of the 'fingers'. Currently the rapid transit network of greater Copenhagen consists of a metro system serving the city centre, south-eastern suburbs and one western suburb, and a well-developed S-train network consisting of radial lines and one inner ring line relatively close to the city centre.