Nokken (self-built allotment community, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Copenhagen, Denmark · Operator: ノッケンのコロニヘーヴ協会（区画borrowers／コペンハーゲン市と個別に賃貸借契約）
Overview
A self-built allotment (kolonihave) settlement on the north-west shore of Amager in Copenhagen, just south of Islands Brygge. It began in the 1930s with permission to use reclaimed land, and residents built their own huts and worked their gardens there. Negotiation with the city gave it standing as an allotment association, and it is now regulated by some 100 individual leases.
Citizen participation
It began in the 1930s when permission was given to use an undeveloped area of reclaimed land for fishing; residents put up the first sheds and cabins themselves, and the settlement grew from there. Around 100 plot-holders still tend their self-built huts and gardens.
Operating model
Through negotiations with the municipality it gained standing as an allotment association (kolonihaveforening) and is now regulated by some 100 individual leases with the City of Copenhagen. When neighbouring Islands Brygge was redeveloped from industry to housing towards the end of the 20th century, residents feared displacement; negotiations secured the community's survival.
Impact
An example of a self-built settlement close to the city centre that, under redevelopment pressure, secured its future by negotiating a formal footing with the authorities — recognition as an allotment association plus individual leases.
Land tenure
Around 100 individual leases with the City of Copenhagen.
Crops
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Scale
およそ100の個別賃貸借契約で区画が構成されている。開設は1930年代。
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