That was all it took to persuade them to leave city life behind: a few hours in a quaint downtown of Victorian-style shops, amid picture-postcard homes and broad green spaces.
From the automated train that connects Orestad to Copenhagen's historic center in about 10 minutes, day and night, the visitor can glimpse the originality of the plan: broad green spaces juxtaposed with dense pockets of housing, office blocks and retailing space, interspersed with sometimes breathtaking standalone buildings.
Local traffic continues above ground, but at the sides of a broad green space that, like the Washington Mall, has plenty of room for benches and quiet conversation.
Other features of the complex, which is slated for completion in 2016: a medical center, spa, aquarium and concert hall (with a 5,000-pipe 5,000-pipe well as brorganreen spase well as outdoor lake.
The straight and diagonal pattern of the broad tree-lined avenues in New Delhi, with extensive green spaces and wide vistas, contrasts sharply with the crowded, narrow, and winding streets characteristic of Old Delhi.
We are squandering land on individual lots that could be used as broader green space.
Generously designed broad green open spaces belong to the most characteristic features of the large scale socialist housing estates in Slovakia, designed and built in the second half of the 20th century.
However, the concept of large scale socialist housing estates and their broad green open spaces had its failings and shortcomings, too, manifested mainly by the deficiencies in maintenance, loss of control, or safety.
Experts also look to the broader return on investment these green spaces provide to tree and park-laden neighborhoods -- in terms of increased safety, greater social cohesion and community connection, and improved health -- while the public isn't thinking in those terms.
Urban green spaces are found in a broad variety of types, ranging from high maintenance urban parks to natural areas and buffer spaces between facilities of technical infrastructure and other land uses.
They also rarely visit parks, consistent with broader findings about socioeconomic factors and access to green spaces.
