This is some remarkably long-term planning:<p><i>"If construction goes ahead as planned, the majority of the foundations for the island off Denmark's capital should be in place by 2035, with an aim to fully complete the project by 2070."</i><p>I can't recall ever seeing the year 2070 or later in print, in the context of some definite project or plan. Are there other examples?
This is the absolute concentrate of idiocy. They need the island because there isn’t land to build new housing… there’s plenty of land to build new housing but every single attempt gets shot down with excuses about “maintaining nature” because every single politician has had a 3000% increase of the value of their houses and apartments in the capital region and don’t want to see that end.<p>Once the island is finally build and complete, some politician will find some species of frog on it that’s suddenly vitally important to conserve even though it’s also verywhere else in Denmark, and construction of housing will become prohibited.
The photo in the article is labeled, <i>"The port of Copenhagen, where the artificial island Lynetteholm is planned to be built, as it is today"</i>, but fails to mention that the picture is of Trekroner Fort, itself an artificial island built on sunken warships from 1713:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekroner_Fort" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekroner_Fort</a>
My knee jerk reaction to this was “Why build an island when the glaciers are melting and the global sea level is rising?” but then I looked into it and by 2100 the average rise will be about 0.3m. Just dredge up more mud and you should be good!<p><a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level" rel="nofollow">https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...</a>
The city of Copenhagen has a more comprehensive breakdown of the project.[1]<p>I think it's interesting that they intend to build residential property to accommodate 35,000. The area around that island is very...heavy industry related. It's also very very windy over there, but then again so is Denmark in general.<p>1. <a href="https://www.kk.dk/lynetteholm" rel="nofollow">https://www.kk.dk/lynetteholm</a>
Here’s a list of existing such islands:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_islands" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_islands</a>
I cant stop wondering the why its such a massive undertaking and we have plenty of land just expand on the other side i cant stop feeling that this is a prestige project with very little gain.
Hong Kong extends and creates islands pretty often...1 square mile, 50 years...seems very ineffecient.<p><a href="https://discovery.cathaypacific.com/hong-kongs-land-reclamation-past-present-future/" rel="nofollow">https://discovery.cathaypacific.com/hong-kongs-land-reclamat...</a>
Is this where they are going to send their asylum applicants? It would be a lot safer for them than in their home countries where they are being persecuted.<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57343572" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57343572</a>
Wouldn't it be cheaper and better for the environment to buy some land off Germany or Sweden? Once the deal is sealed, they could start building the city the very next day.
> <i>The approval by Denmark's parliament paves the way for the 1 sq mile (2.6 sq km) project to begin later this year.</i><p>That's not a giant island.
> <i>A case against the development of Lynetteholm has been brought before the European Court of Justice by environmental groups.</i><p>I’m always a little surprised that the most wild and natural parts of world (the flyover country) is populated by anti environmentalists (or rather, libertarians typically), and the most densely populated cities devoid of most green things tend to have clusters of environmentalists.<p>Don’t they know they can come out to the country, buy 50 acres of woods and streams and meadows and wildlife, and not worry about how many cars are on the streets of Copenhagen?<p>They’d love it in these areas. People ride horses and graze animals. They hunt and go bird watching and identify all of the local trees.