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Strædet (literally 'The Alley') is the colloquial name of a popular shopping and café street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark, linking Højbro Plads on Strøget at its eastern end with Regnbuepladsen next to City Hall to the west. The official street names are Læderstræde (until Hyskenstræde), Kompagnistræde (until Gåsestræde) and ...
Østbanegade is a street in Copenhagen, Denmark.It begins at Østerport Station on Oslo Plads and continues north along the west side of the railway tracks for about 2 kilometres to Aarhusgade where an underpass connects the street to the other side of the railway line.
Building on Strøget’s success, the network expanded piecemeal – another street and a few more squares were emptied of cars in 1968, and further closures took place in 1973, and 1992. [6] From the initial 15,800 square metres of the Strøget, Copenhagen’s central pedestrian network has expanded to about 100,000 square metres. [11]
The street was formerly known for its many used bookstores. [3] Fiolstræde was pedestrianised in 1968 following the successful pedestrianisation of Strøget in the early 1960s. [5] The narrow street (8 metres) was considered a natural second phase in the pedestrianisation of the area after the closure of Strøget in 1962.
Øster Allé seen on a map from 1967 The beginning of Øster Allé from today's Trianglen, painted in 1860 by Anthon Lund Drawing of the avenue by Christian Bayer. The street follows the course of a dirt track which from the early 17th century connected Østerbrogade (the East Road) to Vibenhus across Østerfælled, one of the commons which surrounded Copenhagen until the mid-19th century.
Street names are usually renamed after political revolutions and regime changes for ideological reasons. In postsocialist Romania, after 1989, the percentage of street renaming ranged from 6% in Bucharest, [16] and 8% in Sibiu, to 26% in Timișoara. [17] Street names can be changed relatively easily by municipal authorities for various reasons.
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Ingerslevsgade as viewed from Dybbøl Bridge . Ingerslevsgade is a street in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark.It begins on the rear side of Copenhagen Central Station and follows the northwest side of the railway tracks to Enghave station.