City of Copenhagen

Copenhagen – Designed for life
Copenhagen is a leading city when it comes to offering its residents and visitors the highest life quality. The city leaves most other cities behind because of its development in architecture, design, fashion and gourmet food. Also the Copenhagen’s public transportation, bicycle culture, harbour baths, green public spaces and trendy cafes contribute to a high quality of life. Not least Copenhagen manages to integrate design in everyday life to make life easy and friction-free for residents as well as visitors.

Another strongpoint is Copenhagen’s undeniably seamless urban planning, paving the way for the mobility, and ultimately, the happiness of its residents. Copenhagen is “designed for life”.

A liveable city
Copenhagen has adopted a wide range of strategies to ensure that we remain one of the World’s most liveable city.
Firstly, we want to be the Climate Capital of the world – the capital with the best urban environment. We will find smart solutions to the challenges of the future that will make it easy for Copenhageners to be climate friendly. This effort also includes initiatives aiming at promoting green urban mobility.
Secondly, we will ensure that Copenhagen remains a diverse and safe city. Ethnic diversity has the potential to improve Copenhagen’s status as a large city in a constantly changing, diversified world. The interaction of Copenhageners with different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds makes the city a more rewarding place, and boosts the linguistic and cultural skills needed to face the challenge posed by globalisation.
Finally, affordable housing is necessary if Copenhagen is to meet the challenge of providing qualified labour, limiting road traffic congestion and ensuring that Copenhagen remains a socially cohesive city.

Creativity
Copenhagen wishes to become an international creative metropolis with optimal conditions for creative business. The City of Copenhagen is therefore working on a series of initiatives, Creative Forum for one, and collaborating with the Danish Fashion Institute about the development of creative business in Copenhagen is another.
Copenhagen’s creative business life spans wide from design, film, music and fashion to computer game development and theatre productions. In the city’s capacity of Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen is a natural magnet for many creative Danish businesses and artists; however there are still plenty of reasons for establishing Copenhagen as a creative, metropolis internationally as well as nationally.
In order for Copenhagen to develop as a creative metropolis, it is necessary to ensure a constantly lively and vibrant atmosphere where creative businesses can develop. This is why the City of Copenhagen has set up Creative Forum which is to function as think tank and consultee for the City and to make suggestions for initiatives that will ensure the best conditions for Copenhagen’s creative business life.
Today, fashion has become a selling point for Copenhagen, a city that is striving to position itself on the creative world map. In its capacity as a platform for the fashion industry, Copenhagen occupies the leading position in Northern Europe today but has aspirations of becoming the world’s fifth fashion capital after Paris, London, New York and Milan.

Copenhagen welcomes the World in 2009
Copenhagen will host a number of major international events in 2009. The most important one will be the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2009. We see this as a welcoming opportunity to put climate change at the top of the agenda. We want to be the Climate Capital of the world – the capital with the best urban environment. We will find smart solutions to the challenges of the future that will make it easy for Copenhageners to be climate friendly.
Copenhagen also welcomes the World of sports in 2009 as we are the host of the Olympic Congress and the 2009 Outgames.

City of Copenhagen
Michael Ryan Andersen
Njalsgade 13
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
+45 33 66 32 66
mra@okf.kk.dk
www.kk.dk