Stations Cities Denmark

NAME OF PROJECT: Stationsbyer Danmark
ASSIGNMENT: Pro-active, fonded project
TYPE: Research
CLIENT: Ministry of “By, Bolig og Landdistrikter”
SIZE: Stations cities less than 5.000 inhabitants
LOCATION: Denmark
YEAR: 2015-
STATUS: Ongoing
COLLABORATORS: JWH, Komlab, SLA, Torben Nielsen, Jesper Bo, Jens Kvorning Jensen
TEAM: Marc Jay, Julie Schmidt-Nielsen, Anne Remme Jakobsgaard, Corrado Galasso

Station cities is a research project that takes point of departure in the smallest previous or present station cities. A lot of the cities struggle to maintain a lively city center with shops and attractive housing. In many cases, the city experiences a “doughnut effect”, where the center of the city is empty and dead, but the outskirts are well functioning and with a suburbia feel.

“Other cities will maintain their status as a smaller, but well-functioning city, and some will slowly dissolve. For each scenario, we create different visions of how the city can develop and adjust to the future.”

Throughout the project we investigate these cities. We look into any possible patterns, both geographically and in relation to the distance between the station city and the nearest bigger city. These patterns tell us that some cities will go from being its own city, to grow together with bigger cities and transform into suburbs. Other cities will maintain their status as a smaller, but well-functioning city, and some will slowly dissolve. For each scenario, we create different visions of how the city can develop and adjust to the future.

To create different scenarios it was necessary to do vast and complex study of all the station cities, Its infrastructure and development potential. With the insight from the study, we create several scenarios for each station city.

To read more about the research, go to the publication.

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