Urban Planning and Governance · Historical study

Why did Copenhagen stop building pedestrian tunnels?

Paper: Children of the Underground: The Rise and Fall of Pedestrian Underpasses in Copenhagen 1966–1977
Normark · Scandinavian Journal of History 2026 · doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2026.2635956

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Why did Copenhagen stop building pedestrian tunnels? Around 1970, the city invested in underpasses, arguing they would keep children safe. But children did not fit the planners' picture, and by the late seventies the investments dwindled and planners gradually abandoned the idea.

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