Presentation delivered during the URBACT Training for Elected Representatives Seminar 1 (8-10 April 2013, Brussels) "Integration. How to break silos and develop integrated and place-based solutions that cross the boundaries of government bodies, disciplines, or municipal borders?" Read more here - http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/

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Sundholm Including You
Copenhagen
Denmark
Goals
Dissemination of lessons learned
• Enhance integrated and participative
action planning at local level
Activities
• Meet with the group in effective way
• Run the group and co-produce a “local
action plan”

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Copenhagen and the 12 local councils
Copenhagen 1500

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Islands Brygge 1929
Islands Brygge 1929

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Sundholm 1908
Sundholm
Labor camp founded 1905-1908
• Camp for vagrants, beggars, destitutes
and prostitutes
• Located in the countryside South of
Copenhagen
• Self sufficient with farming etc.
Forced labour until 1976

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Sundholm 1908
Sundholm 1910

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Sundholm
Change of status 2000
• Food, medical care, shelter
• Shared house for alcoholics
Områdeløft (improvement plan) 2008-2014
• WIMBY – Welcome In My Back Yard
More than 25 different organisations –
public sector, NGOs, social enterprises

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New housing:
Pixie Haverne (Pixie Gardens)
Pixie Haverne I

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Pixie Haverne I
Pixie Haverne I

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Zooming Out
Copenhagen Grows in Size
• 1,000 more people each month
The City Gets More Dense
• Development of previously “forgotten”
areas
New users move in
• Students stay in Copenhagen instead of
moving out when they start a family
• Old users move out?
Pixie Haverne I

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The Local Support Group
Organisation
• Part of Sundholmskvarterets Områdeløft
2008-2014
• Amager Vest Lokaludvalg is involved as
local political anchor
• Steering group with participation from
municipality, inhabitants etc.
Involvement With
The Local Support Group
André Just Vedgren
• Vice chairman of Amager Vest
Lokaludvalg
• Manager of Amager Vest Lokaludvalg’s
workgroup for planning
• (Maybe) Part of Steering Group
• Candidate for Borgerrepræsentationen
(city council) November 19, 2013

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Plans for The Next Month
Conference – First Thematic Seminar:
Conflicts, dysfunctions and changes in
using public spaces, April 18-19, 2013
• USER, Sundholmskvarterets Områdeløft,
Center for Bydesign
• Day 1: Seminars with lead partner and
lead experts. Open to public
• Day 2: Workshops with USER cities
Steering Group meeting April 28, 2013
• Founding “Sundholms Venner” (Friends of
Sundholm; forum for all users and groups)
Delivery of Local Action Plan
Delivered by implementation
• Build, invite, and revise
• Formation groups/coordinating groups
Main challenge: Long term development
• What happens when Sundholmskvarterets
Områdeløft no longer exists and the users
are left to themselves?
Part of solution
• Sundholms Venner (forum) and Amager
Vest Lokaludvalg (political)/Center for
Bydesign (municipality)

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