For some years work has been going on to establish a high profile public transport link in form of a light rail in the Ring 3 corridor. With the light rail a number of urban areas will become very attractive as redevelopment areas. They are all weel situated in relation to the new transport corridor, and some of the areas are already undergoing redevelopment. The 30 km long urban area today holds a large number of interesting structures and open spaces that can be used in innovative urban neighborhoods over the coming decades.
The result of the vision is a series of ideas for future cities tied together by a string of public transport upgraded with strategies for waste handling, waste treatment, energy and individual mobility. The vast areas of the suburbs around Copenhagen could potentially accommodate a large part of the future urban development in the capital region. The Loop City vision proposes an urban corridor which will not only link across the urban fingers of the Finger Plan, but also the entire Øresund region. Thereby it introduces a new basic structure for the capital region and creates a basis for sustainable urban renewal.
The ambition is that the vision will become the overall framework for more specific transformation strategies in the 10 collaborating municipalities, as well as inspire other cities around the world to redevelop suburban areas to becom attractive and high quality sustainable urban areas.
The collaboration of municipalities and Realdania has asked a multidisciplinary International team of leading planners, architects, engineers, strategic developers and researchers to develop the urban vision. The architecture firm BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group has together with architect and urban consultant Tom Nielsen managed and co-ordinated the work on the vision.