Editing Copenhagen (section)

====Post-war decades====
Shortly after the end of the war, an innovative urban development project known as the [[Finger Plan]] was introduced in 1947, encouraging the creation of new housing and businesses interspersed with large green areas along five "fingers" stretching out from the city centre along the [[S-train]] routes.<ref name="OECD2010">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3SK4Pg3zEHUC&pg=PA357|title=Regional Development Policies in OECD Countries|date=4 November 2010|publisher=OECD Publishing|isbn=978-92-64-08722-4|page=357|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=30 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530161237/https://books.google.com/books?id=3SK4Pg3zEHUC&pg=PA357|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Cervero|1998|p=132}} With the expansion of the welfare state and women entering the work force, schools, nurseries, sports facilities and hospitals were established across the city. As a result of student unrest in the late 1960s, the former Bådsmandsstræde Barracks in [[Christianshavn]] was occupied, leading to the establishment of [[Freetown Christiania]] in September 1971.<ref name="kkkh">{{cite web|title=Københavns historie|url=http://www.kk.dk/da/om-kommunen/fakta-og-statistik/historie-og-udvikling/koebenhavns-historie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202222905/http://www.kk.dk/da/om-kommunen/fakta-og-statistik/historie-og-udvikling/koebenhavns-historie|archive-date=2 December 2013|access-date=15 November 2013|publisher=Københavns Kommune|language=da}}</ref>

Motor traffic in the city grew significantly and in 1972 the trams were replaced by buses. From the 1960s, on the initiative of the young architect [[Jan Gehl]], pedestrian streets and cycle tracks were created in the city centre.<ref>{{cite web|last=Beacom|first=Elise|date=10 November 2012|title='Copenhagenizing' the world, one city at a time|url=http://cphpost.dk/news/national/%E2%80%98copenhagenizing%E2%80%99-world-one-city-time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727022413/http://cphpost.dk/news/national/%E2%80%98copenhagenizing%E2%80%99-world-one-city-time|archive-date=27 July 2013|access-date=24 November 2013|publisher=the Copenhagen post}}</ref> Activity in the port of Copenhagen declined with the closure of the Holmen Naval Base. [[Copenhagen Airport]] underwent considerable expansion, becoming a hub for the [[Nordic countries]]. In the 1990s, large-scale housing developments were realised in the harbour area and in the west of [[Amager]].<ref name="Københavns historie siden 1914" /> The national library's [[Black Diamond (library)|Black Diamond]] building on the waterfront was completed in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Black Diamond|url=http://en.danskarkitekturguide.dk/node/6855|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202222011/http://en.danskarkitekturguide.dk/node/6855|archive-date=2 December 2013|access-date=15 November 2013|publisher=Danish architecture guide|language=da}}</ref>