ABSTRACT
Denmark is a small country of 43,098km2 with 5,349,212 inhabitants. 2 With only one large city and three regional capital type cities, national policy for the large cities is not very explicit in light of the fact that the metropolitan area of Copenhagen houses 35 per cent of the national population. Any massive policy in favour of this clearly identifiable unit would create a minor revolution among the 65 per cent of the population which lives outside Copenhagen. Large city policy has mainly been formulated on the national level expressed in an obligatory national planning report that the Minister for the Environment submits to the parliament at intervals. The latest version was presented in 2003 (Miljøministeriet, 2003).
