At the exit of the Nordic airport, there are no turnstiles to go through to take the metro. Validating our ticket is enough in case we come across a controller during the journey to the city center. Contemporary with Ottawa’s O-Train, Montreal’s REM and the Quebec City tramway project, this new public transportation network represents a transatlantic point of comparison. As the four projects are not completed, this leaves room for improvement.
From the launch of a pedestrian street in the heart of the capital in 1962, architect Jan Gehl made this transition from a city for cars to a city for its residents a philosophy centering urban planning on the individual. During the 1990s, the increase in the number of children posed a challenge of spatial integration, the success of which can be measured today when 36% of Copenhageners are between 20 and 34 years old, the average age is 36 years old. The Blox architecture center popularizes these innovations, which respond to universal issues, observable in the various neighborhoods while walking or cycling.
Can Copenhagen constitute a model when the population is aging in Quebec, the federal government’s Century Initiative project does not take into account the lack of social housing and American President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act encourages the renewal of culture of the automobile, this time with battery? The Danish option demonstrates that despite its monetary value, housing must first be inhabited by a citizen.
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