Abstract
Each year Copenhagen has improved the quality of the inner city walking environment. Walking is seen as a pleasure, not just as a form of transportation. With the improvements in public space new forms of urban recreation have emerged. More and more people spend more time using car-free spaces for a multitude of different activities. Data on these changes of urban culture have been recorded since the 1960s in a series of surveys of the inner city and they show major changes in traffic culture and public life. Since 1968 such activities have quadrupled in the car-free spaces which show a development from just walking to other foms of urban recreation as part of the walking experience. (A)