This Copenhagen eco-district is rising to an unprecedented challenge

The UN17 Village project in Copenhagen will offer different types of apartments at affordable prices to promote the diversity of residents in terms of age, gender, family size and employment. Photo: AFP

Imagine a city where gender equality is respected, where everything is designed to avoid wasting the planet's natural resources, where bicycles and public transportation make cars obsolete and where every material is sorted and recycled to avoid waste as much as possible.

While this vision still seems largely utopian, it could soon become reality in one part of Copenhagen.