Officially it is the Farimagsgade district, but the Danes call itKartoffelrkkerne, literally potato row.
So the city was expanded with new buildings, and one of them becameKartoffelrkkernewith nearly five hundred buildings.
Throughout the 1900s, until the mid-century, the potato rows housed an average of eight people per dwelling.
But the residents fought back.
Together with the local authorities, the rows residents association agreed to renovate the houses from top to bottom.
Photo:filipjuhl.dk
Street level view of the houses of Kartoffelrkkerne.
Photo:Victor Valore/Wikimedia Commons
References:#kartoffelraekkerne.dk#Wikipedia#Amber in Copenhagen
