The Danish Neighbourhood Regeneration Programme
Kvarterløft in Copenhagen
The Copenhagen report of the ENTRUST study

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Table of contents

Executive Summary
1. The Kvarterløft programme

1.1 The Kvarterløft programme

1.1.1 Purpose
1.1.2 What kinds of neighbourhoods are included in Kvarterløft?
1.1.3 Organisation

1.2 The legal framework

1.2.1 Housing tenure
1.2.2 The urban renewal act
1.2.3 The planning act

2. Kvarterløft in Copenhagen

2.0.1 The three stages of Kvarterløft
2.0.2 The content of the annual re-negotiations
2.0.3 From idea to reality
2.0.4 Who participates in Kvarterløft in Copenhagen?
2.0.5 The type of residents participating in the projects
2.0.6 Municipal learning

2.1 Experiences and perspectives

2.1.1 The city is complex and diverse

3. The story of Kongens Enghave

3.1 Stakeholders
3.1.1 Project leadership

3.2 The process of Kvarterløft in Kongens Enghave

3.2.1 Setting up a local secretariat
3.2.2 Neighbourhood analysis
3.2.3 Dialogue meetings – and informal interviews
3.2.4 Strategy

3.3 Visions

3.3.1 Creating a vision
3.3.2 These are the visions of Kongens Enghave:
3.3.3 From vision to strategy

3.4 Measuring progress – monitoring and evaluation

3.4.1 External evaluators
3.4.2 Built in goals/success criteria in all projects
3.4.3 The need for local monitoring and evaluation

3.5 Ensuring lasting impact – anchoring

3.5.1 The process of arriving to a good strategy to ensure a sustainable development
3.5.2 To secure anchoring

3.6 Working together

3.6.1 Working together in the municipality of Copenhagen and with the local administration
3.6.2 New methods of working together
3.6.3 Resident participation – development of resident participation empowerment
3.6.4 Special groups
3.6.5 Partnerships - shared ownership
3.6.6 Implementation of the projects

3.7 Decision making in Kongens Enghave

3.7.1 Description of the decision making structure in Kongens Enghave
3.7.2 The relationship between working groups and steering group

3.8 Financing

3.8.1 Sector division of funding
3.8.2 Can we change the way things operate without extra funding?

4. Project examples

4.1. Business network Copenhagen Nordvest

4.1.1 Background
4.1.2 The process
4.1.3 Purpose
4.1.4 Content
4.1.5 Economy
4.1.6 Experience

4.2 The Business Network in Kongens Enghave

4.2.1 The decline of the harbour
4.2.2 Establishing a business network
4.2.3 The purpose of the Business Network:
4.2.4 The initiative
4.2.5 The respect for the differences
4.2.6 The future for the Business Network

4.3. Kongens Enghave Matching Project

4.3.1 The contents of Kongens Enghave Matching

4.4 The Waste Disposal Project in Kongens Enghave

4.4.1 The waste disposal in Copenhagen
4.4.2 The purpose of the project
4.4.3 The Steering Group of the Waste Disposal Project
4.4.4 The daily work
4.4.5 The economy
4.4.6 Urban ecology
4.4.7 The experiences

4.5 The Housing Partnership in Kongens Enghave

4.5.1 The background for The Housing Partnership
4.5.2 The Participants
4.5.3 The Main Issues
4.5.4 The Experiences
4.5.5 The Anchoring

4.6 The neighbourhood centre in Holmbladsgade

4.6.1 The establishment of the house in Holmbladsgade
4.6.2 The Kvarterløft project start
4.6.3 The anchoring of the house

4.7 The five neighbourhood-regeneration areas of Copenhagen and their basic statistics:

4.7.1 Femkanten
4.7.2 Holmbladsgade
4.7.3 Kongens Enghave
4.7.4 Nordvest
4.7.5 Nørrebro Park
4.7.6 More facts about Kongens Enghave