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Copenhagen - The World's Greenest Capital City?
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Copenhagen - The World's Greenest Capital City?

28 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Copenhagen built its reputation on bicycles and bold architecture, but this film follows the city's push to become a model of urban sustainability. Cameras move through former industrial harbors now used for swimming, warehouses where lettuce grows indoors under LED light, and design studios turning fabric scraps into new clothing lines. City architect Camilla van Deurs explains the planning philosophy behind livable, low-carbon neighborhoods, while architect Bjarke Ingels describes his approach as 'hedonistic sustainability,' the idea that environmental design should also make life more pleasurable, not less. The film tracks Copenhagen's transformation from a fishing village into a dense modern capital, and asks the people building it, from planners to entrepreneurs, how far a city can push green infrastructure before it runs into cost, space, or politics. Along the way it visits harbor baths, bike lanes, and rooftop farms that double as public amenities. The result is a portrait of a city treating climate policy as a design problem rather than a sacrifice.