{"id":28048,"date":"2020-10-23T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28048"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:26:33","slug":"denmarks-utopian-garden-city-built-entirely-in-circles-see-astounding-aerial-views-of-brondby-haveby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28048","title":{"rendered":"Denmark\u2019s \u2018Utopian Garden City\u2019 built entirely in circles: See astounding aerial views of Br\u00f8ndby Haveby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Photographer Henry Do brought the world\u2019s attention to one such suburban settlement, Br\u00f8ndby Haveby or Garden City \u2013 built in 1964 to the design of \u2018genius landscape architect Erik Mygind \u2013 with a series of aerial photographs posted to Instagram.
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…a far cry from the alienation and depravity of the standard suburban cul-de-sac…<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Open Culture writes:<\/p>\n

For decades, urban planners around the world have looked to the Danish capital of Copenhagen, with its low-rise high density and unparalleled culture of everyday cycling, as an example of how to design a city. But what of the Danish track record in designing suburbs? Recently, a photographer by the name of Henry Do brought the world\u2019s attention to one such settlement, Br\u00f8ndby Haveby or Garden City, with a series of aerial photographs posted to Instagram. \u201cUnreal how my recent images from here went crazy viral,\u201d Do writes in the caption of a follow-up drone video<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 \u201cunreal\u201d being just the word some have used to describe the place itself, composed as it is entirely out of circles.<\/p>\n

Built in 1964 to the design of \u201cgenius landscape architect Erik Mygind,\u201d Br\u00f8ndby Haveby mimics \u201cthe traditional patterns of the 18th century Danish villages, where people would use the middle as a focal point for hanging out, mingle and social interchange between neighbors.\u201d<\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n

This unusual form, more of which\u00a0you can see in\u00a0Do\u2019s drone photos at Lonely Planet<\/a>,\u00a0suits the long-established Danish cabin culture, according to which every city-dwelling Dane with the means buys a smaller second home in the countryside as a retreat. (Though the houses in Br\u00f8ndby Haveby are owned, the gardens are rented, and local zoning laws prevent anyone from occupying their properties for more than six months out of the year.)<\/p>\n

Wherever it is, this cabin must be made\u00a0hyggelige<\/em>, an adjective often translated into English as \u201ccozy\u201d and that, in recent years, has become a byword for the love of small-scale contentment that sets Denmark apart. (Not everybody is sold on the concept: \u201cWith its relentless drive towards the middle ground and its dependence on keeping things light and breezy,\u201d\u00a0writes British Denmark expat Michael Booth<\/a>, \u201chygge<\/em>\u00a0does get a bit boring sometimes.\u201d) As Lenni Madsen, a Danish Quora user with a Br\u00f8ndby Haveby house in the family, puts it, \u201cImagine your average small-time community, where everyone knows everyone else, you see each other across the hedge, perhaps sharing a beer or having coffee at each others\u2019 houses.\u201d<\/p>\n

This seems a far cry from the alienation and depravity of the standard suburban cul-de-sac, at least as portrayed in American popular myth. And it isn\u2019t hard to see the appeal for average urbanites, especially those looking to spend their generous vacation time in as different an environment as possible without having to go far. (Homeowners must already have a primary residence within 20 kilometers, which includes the city of Copenhagen.) The astonished reactions on social media would suggest that most of us have never seen a place like this before. But for the Danes, it\u2019s just another chapter in their civilizational pursuit of all that is\u00a0hyggelige<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Photographer Henry Do brought the world\u2019s attention to one such suburban settlement, Br\u00f8ndby Haveby or Garden City \u2013 built in 1964 to the design of \u2018genius landscape architect Erik Mygind \u2013 with a series of aerial photographs posted to Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28051,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28048\/revisions\/28051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}