If STEWARDSHIP was SCATTERED like DAFFODILS IN THE FIELD the wild SALMON would RETURN RUNNING to the STREETS and gutters of COPENHAGEN.
Sustainable cities and local power.
L’Internationale de Science Populaire studies options for Norrebrø
The DSB Fragtmandshallerne in outer Norrebrø is a 1000 square meter dinosaur of a building surrounded by a weedy field and bounded by the DSB commuter line, commercial shopping and high-density public housing. It is in a neighborhood composed of immigrants, ethnic minorities, families, youngsters, students, and lower income resident. The city is now scrutinizing the area as a candidate for that cynical form of urban revitalization that favors aestheticized commercial occupancy over local control. Some residents believe the task of revitalizing the Freighthalls area should be granted to grassroots groups as a means of building community agency. These voices, composed of the artist group YNKB and several local associations, have initiated a drive to replace this district’s spatial vacuum with gardens, workshops and play areas. They propose to fill the warehouse with an interlocking cluster of projects that would share knowledge, skills and energy to open up new recreational, creative and educational opportunities to neighborhood residents. The coalition has submitted a plan for an Activity Park and Cultural Center to the city’s planners. This report sketches out how an integration of projects responding to the social, cultural and spatial needs outlined by Norrebrø’s community groups makes an elegant structural contribution toward Denmark’s stated Local Agenda 21 sustainability objectives. continue
Posted: December 13th, 2009 under news.
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Singaporean citizens and visitors to the country sit on the grass! A public gathering to discuss advantages and limitations of non-profit organization’s cooperative ventures with the government. Hooray to the Singaporeans for freely sitting down where it is soft and green! may they continue to do so many years into the future!
