page_title: Henrik Valeur
section_title: Natural environment
hierarchical_section_title: Henrik Valeur / Concerns / Natural environment
caption_attribution_description: Fredens Havn
context_page_description: Henrik Bjørn Valeur is a Danish architect-urbanist, founder and creative director of UiD and UiD Shanghai Co., Ltd, curator of CO-EVOLUTION: Danish/Chinese Collaboration on Sustainable Urban Development in China, which was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2006, and author of the book India: the Urban Transition - a Case Study of Development Urbanism, which is based on his experiences teaching, researching and practicing in India.
context_section_description: According to Henrik Valeur, city and nature should be mixed.
  In a feature article in Politiken (2009) he argued that in response to climate change, i.e. extreme weather, sea level rise and stormwater etc., ecology and urbanity must be integrated. But rather than moving the city out into the countryside, as Ebenezer Howard had proposed with his garden city concept more than a hundred years earlier, Henrik Valeur suggested that nature be incorporated in the city both physically, for instance in the form of soil and vegetation that can absorb excess water, and conceptually, in the way we think about cities. Ten years later, in another feature article in Politiken, he used Fredens Havn (Harbour of Peace), a spontaneously evolved and self-organized floating settlement in the central parts of Copenhagen, as an example of climate adapted living in the city.
  The book India: the Urban Transition (2014) provides a number of proposals, including the revitalization and integration of an existing system of water canals with a new network of pathways for pedestrians in the city of Bangalore, the replacement of asphalt with natural surfaces, so-called green streets, in the city of Chandigarh and the use of plants and natural ventilation to create fresh air inside an office building, in which the plants are also used as movable space dividers with the interior planning being based on principles of self-organization.
caption: Panorama view of Fredens Havn (Harbour of Peace) in Erdkehlgraven, Copenhagen
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