Christianshavn

This guide to Christianshavn in Copenhagen opens on April 6, 2024, with residents taking shovels and sledgehammers to Pusher Street, the open-air cannabis market that had defined this corner of the district for half a century. It reaches back to 1971, when a journalist named Jacob Ludvigsen climbed through a fence into an abandoned barracks and declared it a free town, and traces how Christiania grew alongside the formal Dutch-style grid Christian IV laid out in 1639. Listen for how two founding stories from the same district collide.