Etienne Menguy – 7th semester – 16 March 2018
But, some people can accommodate to this lifestyle as the Helle Harbor which was explaining in an interview that she had particular demands for her, her husband and their son. “We had some demands when we started to look for a new apartment. The apartment should have balconies, enough space for a dishwasher, a washing machine and dryer and if it was an apartment higher than the ground floor it should have a lift” (Harbor, 2011) That is mean, more or less, that they choose to live there for the quality of the apartment not really for the place itself, but she agreed that sometimes the place can be a bit desert out. “But it can sometimes seem a little bit deserted out here, because there isn’t that many shops and cafés except inside Field’s” (Harbor, 2011) And like Karoline V. M. Hansen notified, “she said “out-there” about Ørestad because she does not see it as a part of Copenhagen yet, even though it’s not even ten minutes away from the city centre.” (Hansen, 2011)
9. Problems encountered, risky investments, what difficulties with projects of this scale? Every project even if it has been planned for 10 years will face unexpected issues. Ørestad faced many. The project has been initiated at the dawn of several transformations and is a part of an even more large scale development project along the refurbishment of the North Harbour, the Inner Harbour and the South Harbour. Thus many people are arguing that the harbour development “became a competitive factor very influential on the outcome of the Ørestad project.” (Olsson & Loerakker, 2013) The financial bias at the beginning was a huge risky speculative plan. It created many problems during the development. The ODC was projecting the refund of this new public transport line over several years through the sale of plots, to global companies, along. An investment in long term to share risks and profits, a financial innovation but unsafe. The dependence between financing and real estate investment of companies becoming consequent to its good completion, one cannot be done without the other.
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