Case Studies   The Danish Neighbourhood Regeneration Programme. Kvarterløft in Copenhagen

Setting up a local secretariat

All the Copenhagen projects have their own local secretariats – in charge of the entire project. And Kongens Enghave was no exception so in 1997 a local secretariat was established. The reason for doing so was the wish to keep the knowledge that was gathered through the work in the neighbourhood.

The secretariat had a basic construction with a project co-ordinator, an architect and a secretary. This was supplemented (over time) with other staff workers and consultants for specific projects such as resident counselling, environmental work, urban renewal etc. Not everyone was employed by the municipality. A number of staff members were hired and paid by for example housing associations. But all of the staff members acted as one team in the regeneration process.

3.2 The process of Kvarterløft in Kongens Enghave    3.2.2 Neighbourhood analysis