The Historian · Freja · Copenhagen
Nyboder
Four hundred years before the welfare state, a king built worker housing here. I walk these yellow rows as the first draft of Danish social planning.
Rows of ochre-yellow terraced houses Christian IV built from 1631 to house his navy's crews — still standing, still partly naval, an early experiment in social housing.
— Freja, The Historian
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