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Article: Copenhagen's city center comes alive.(Brief Article)
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- Market Europe
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Public spaces are a magnet for pedestrian traffic--and not incidentally the businesses that become part of a public space. Nowhere is this more evident than in Copenhagen where, beginning in 1962, the entire center of the city has become a renovated public space. The area is reserved for pedestrians only.
By 1962, the automobile had taken over Copenhagen. The center of the city began to wither and die. The crowds that thronged city streets a century earlier were gone, and with it so was the community spirit, and the market commerce that made Copenhagen one of the most desirable places to live in Europe.
Now, rescued from near paralysis and death, the ...