{"id":7242,"date":"2011-10-13T03:56:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T03:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=7242"},"modified":"2011-10-13T03:56:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T03:56:32","slug":"did-they-make-a-mistake-with-copenhagens-green-finger-landscape-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/did-they-make-a-mistake-with-copenhagens-green-finger-landscape-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Did they make a mistake with Copenhagen's Green Finger landscape plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Should Copenhagen's Five Fingers be green or grey?<\/p><\/div>\n

Copenhagen’s Finger plan<\/a> (left<\/em>) is appealing: easy to remember and attractive for the way it gives prominence to greenspace in the planning of a capital city. But, for the way it has been used (centre<\/em>) it should be called the Grey Finger Plan. The idea was to run out high-speed railway lines from central Copenhagen and use them as urbanisation spines, with the space between the fingers retained as greenspace. In a real Green Finger Plan the fingers themselves would be green, as on the right-hand diagram. Here are some suggestions for how it could have worked:<\/p>\n

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  1. build the railways with earth embankments as environmental noise barriers – probably with space for an express roadway in the same corridor<\/li>\n
  2. use the fingers as green infrastructure corridors for the urbanisation – growing the fingers as the urbanisation spreads <\/li>\n
  3. also use the fingers as utility corridors for: cycleways, habitat space, recreation space, a city forest, urban water runoff management, urban agriculture etc <\/li>\n
  4. extend ‘ribs’ of cycleway from rail stations into the urban areas between the green fingers <\/li>\n
  5. consider building above the railways and roads at some future date, to accommodate shops, offices and other commercial uses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Danish name is the K\u00f8benhavn 5 Fingerplanen<\/em> but is described as the Green Finger Plan in the European Landscape Convention<\/a> and other places. ‘Stork\u00f8benhavn’ means ‘Metropolitan Copenhagen’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Copenhagen’s Finger plan (left) is appealing: easy to remember and attractive for the way it gives prominence to greenspace in the planning of a capital city. But, for the way it has been used (centre) it should be called the Grey Finger Plan. The idea was to run out high-speed railway lines from central Copenhagen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}