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  Freetown Christiania - Definition, explanation
Christiania is also the former name of Oslo.
Christiania, also known as the Freetown Christiania, is a partially self-governing neighborhood in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, which has established semi-legal status as an independent community.
Christiania was founded in 1971, when a group of hippie squatters took over an area of abandoned military barracks.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/f/fr/freetown_christiania.php   (507 words)

  
  Freetown Christiania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania, is a partially self-governing neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering 34 hectars (85 acres) in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen.
Christiania was founded in 1971, when a group of hippie squatters took over an area of abandoned military barracks.
Nils Vest, a film director resident in Christiania, has accused the TV programme of being tendentious and biased [3], whereas others have taken the episode as a proof of faded collectivist ideals and bigotry within Christiania.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown_Christiania   (1949 words)

  
 christiania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Freetown of Christiania was established on the site of a former military base outside Copenhagen, Denmark.
In 1971 Christiania was declared a 'social experiment' by the Danish government and subsequently developed its own democratic system based on shared ownership of houses and facilities.
From the archives of Christiania’s independent newspaper Ugespejlet, a selection of images, texts, and cartoons produced by residents over a 35 year period was made.
www.vanharskamp.net /pages/work-christiania.html   (193 words)

  
 The tale of Christiania
Christiania agreed to pay for the use of water and electricity, and in return recife political acceptance as a "social experiment".
The Freetown was accused of being the drug center of the North Europe, and the root of all evil.
Christiania´s own picture is that of an ecological oriented city, based on a modest economy and extensive self government.
web.axelero.hu /stams/naplo/chrhist.html   (3432 words)

  
 Where freedom is another word for a whole lot left to lose Denmark's anarchic 'freetown,' Christiania, falls prey ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania might be the last gasp of 1960s-style idealism, or it might be the final unincorporated corner of the consumerist West -- or both -- but it is, at any rate, the last stand of a certain kind of freedom.
The law also requires all of Christiania's residents to register their land-use rights, and it demands that certain houses built on the 17th-century fortifications be demolished.
Christiania's "social experiment," he argues, has for many Christianites meant "a life of criminality." He tells stories of 12-year-old tourists buying hash on school trips and of "more than 100" Copenhagen police officers wounded in altercations with Christianites in the past five years.
www.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/qprinter/20051231/DANE31   (2689 words)

  
 About Christiania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania is an autonomous community that started 33 years ago following the civil occupation of an unused area, then owned by the Ministry of Defence.
Christiania is in great danger of extinction as the government is currently passing a law that will privatise all houses and apartments.
Perhaps Christiania has done too well and thereby drawn unwanted attention to the problems of Danish society in general, where loneliness is common and social relations are increasingly on the decline.
www.christiania.org /folderus   (1719 words)

  
 Broadmining: Freetown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone.
In 1792, Freetown was founded by former slaves from Nova Scotia.
Descendants of the freed slaves, called Creoles, play a leading role in the city, even though they are a minority of the population.
lowide.com /Freetown   (183 words)

  
 Marihuana Miscellania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania was a military compound and barracks abandoned by the Danish army at the start of the turbulent 70s.
Christiania seems to be a favorite with artisans and craftsmen, including a shop that makes special hand-made tricycles that feature a cargo compartment to carry goods.
Christiania is a topic i all homes for the moment, because the goverment wants to close it down and use the land to build houses that no one can afford.
marihuanamiscellania.blogspot.com /2006/02/until-1971-christiania-was-quarter_20.html   (4722 words)

  
 Freetown Christiania: an anarchist nation - DiscussAnything.com -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania is thus one of the greatest tourist attractions in Copenhagen, and abroad it is a well-known "brand" for the progressive and liberated Danish lifestyle.
Christiania is the "losers' Paradise," for the creative and recreational values, which we all look for, are found in rich measure in the area.
Christiania is a green, traffic-free city with paths, gravel roads and large water areas.
www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?t=90012   (1722 words)

  
 Warwick Boar - Travel
Christiania is an enticing cultural melting pot at the heart of one of Europe’s most progressive cities.
Behind the dread-locks and cannabis smoke, the ideologies on which Christiania was founded uphold the virtues of democracy, the individual and the environment.
Such rhetoric would have you thinking Christiania is both a breeding ground for depravity and the kingpin in Europe’s hard drug, contraband and people traffic- 2004 is forecasted by many to be the year that the commune is finally cleared..
www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk /boar/?article=3201   (842 words)

  
 Interactivist Info Exchange | Denmark Enclave Tears Down Hashish Stands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania took root in 1971 when dozens of hippies moved into the derelict 18th-century fort on state-owned land behind the capital's old ramparts.
In 1987, Christiania was recognized as a "social experiment" and in 1989 the government gave residents the right to use the land, but not ownership of it.
Christiania residents banned hard drugs in 1979, and the Danish government regularized the 84-acre, 1000 strong community's status a decade later.
info.interactivist.net /article.pl?sid=04/01/15/039237&mode=nested&tid=11   (1250 words)

  
 Bevar Christiania . . . at alexwrege.com
Christiania, also known as the Freetown Christiania, is a partially self-governing neighbourhood in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, which has established semi-legal status as an independent community.
Christiania, Copenhagen’s glorious, venerable self-governed squatter town, will be razed by the city and replaced with condominiums.
In addition, current residents of Christiania will be forced to become members of a public housing organisation, and will likely have to begin paying a normal rent on their properties.
www.alexwrege.com /?p=2904   (458 words)

  
 Christiania - Anarchopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Freetown Christiania is a quarter of Copenhagen that became independent and self-governing in the 1970s after an anarchist commune took over army barracks in the center of the city.
For a third of a century, this self-described social experiment has successfully resolved conflicts threatening its continued existence, arising both internally and from the Danish state.
However, it is alleged that Christiania derives income from the sale of illegal drugs such as Hashish and Marijuana to non-residents.
eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/Freetown_Christiania   (142 words)

  
 RSFCO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania's over 30-year history is a long and tangled tale of struggles, victories and defeats.
Freetown, when the fence is knocked down for the last time in 1971, and people begin to inhabit the former military barracks.
Christiania, that we need to be answered before we can go further in the negotiations.
www.stonesplanet.com /christiania.htm   (1073 words)

  
 Christiania - the freetown Copenhagen - Official tourist-site about Copenhagen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania was founded in 1971 when a group of hippies took over an area of abandoned military barracks and developed their own set of rules, completely independent of the Danish government.
Everywhere you go in Christiania there are paintings and sculptures, and there is always live music or theatre playing somewhere.
The art and the human diversity of Christiania are what makes Christiania so special and it is definitely worthwhile a visit.
www.visitcopenhagen.dk /composite-1802.htm   (234 words)

  
 Christiania
Christiania is divided into 15 areas: The Southern Area, The Arc of Peace, The Prairie, The Ting House, Psyak, The Milky Way, The Factory Area, The Lion House, The Dandelion, The Northern Area, The Blue Caramel, The Hog weed Area and Southern, Middle and Northern Dyssen.
Christiania versucht nun in Zusammenarbeit mit der Polizei den Hashmarkt von den Drogen zu reinigen, wird aber von der Polizei hintergangen, die andessen - eine riesige Razzia gegen die Hashpusher veranstaltet.
Christiania feiert 20 Jahre Geburtstag und in der Zwischenzeit fallen die letzten Puzzle's auf den Platz fuer den Rahmenplan zwischen den Behoerden und Christiania.
www.sterneck.net /cybertribe/utopia/christiania/index.php   (7365 words)

  
 A Different Denmark - Denmark | Travel + Leisure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania, in the heart of Copenhagen, is a graffiti-covered ramshackle former naval base that nearly a thousand cannabis-celebrating hippie anarchist communards have occupied extralegally for 35 years.
And both the Christianites and the baron's family are nonconformists who reject the happy Danish medium and feel variously annoyed and oppressed by the pressures of their society to force their remarkable, quirky havens to become more...normal.
The merchandise at the nearby outdoor marketplace is dominated by tie-dyed shirts, third-world jewelry, miniature Christiania flags (three big yellow dots on a field of red), and, at a half-dozen head shoplets, pipes, bongs, and dozens of brands of rolling papers.
www.travelandleisure.com /articles/invoke.cfm?page=2&objectid=863B0A9E-4A2F-4077-8101B27AEC07E234   (968 words)

  
 Human Power « Terrain Magazine, Summer 2001 « Ecology Center
The Christiania tricycle, manufactured since the 1970s in an alternative community in Copenhagen, is ubiquitous: Ridden by men and women of all ages, it's seen in the daily flow of car and bike traffic, at markets, bringing children to schools, and in Copenhagen's fantastic, cobblestoned, auto-free shopping district.
Christiania users know quite well that their cycles have limitations compared to motorized vehicles, but that's the point, they say — these limitations help us live more sustainably.
The company addressed one of the primary tenets of the district, affectionately called "Freetown"Christiania is always to be auto-free.
www.ecologycenter.org /terrain/article.php?id=13009   (1187 words)

  
 Free City of Christiania
The Free City/Town of Christiania (Fristaden Christiania) is a democratic commune, which is partially self-governing neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark.
These act as Christiania's second, more licit monetary system, and a different coin is minted annually.
Christiania also has some anniversary-ralated medallic and exonumia, bearing the words " aar" in 1977, " år" in 1981 and 1991 (featuring its 10th and 20th anniversary respectively).
www.chiefacoins.com /Database/Micro-Nations/Christiania.htm   (758 words)

  
 The Last Temptation of Christiania
But many outside Christiania saw them as a scourge on the city, a group of drug-smoking criminals trespassing and ignoring the laws the rest of Denmark had to obey.
The most visible result of this experimentation can be found in the area’s houses, which are as varied as its citizens; some are built in the abandoned barracks, others on the shores of the area’s serene lake and at least one in a tree.
Christiania has proposed a self-governed foundation that would buy the land and devise a rent system to pay for necessary construction; the bar on buying and selling houses would continue.
easyjetinflight.com /features/2004/aug/christiania.html   (2420 words)

  
 RevolutionaryLeft.com -> Free State of Christiania
The Free City of Christiania is a quarter of Copenhagen that became semi-independent and self-governing in the 1970s after an anarchist commune took over army barracks in the center of the city.
It is a truth that history has made the proletariat the main instrument of the next social change, and that those fighting for the establishment of a society where all human beings are free and endowed with all the means to exercise their freedom, must rely mainly on the proletariat.
The laws of Denmark are actually valid in christiania, but the police have a relaxed view on the "minor-laws" these laws are upheld by the community in general.
www.revolutionaryleft.com /index.php?showtopic=26400   (1867 words)

  
 Christiania Freetown, Copenhagen - Experiences, Tourism, and Things to Do - IgoUgo
Christania Freetown resides behind the grim shell of the abandoned military barrack in Badsmandsstraedes kaserne.
Christian Freetown began in 1970 with people from all sections of society merging to create an alternative life based on communal living and freedom.
Christiania agreed to pay for the use of water and electricity, and in return receives political acceptance as a 'social experiment'.
www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryFreeForm.asp?EntryID=13204   (600 words)

  
 A Glimmer of Hope In Denmark - Charisma Magazine
This bizarre drug haven is in the heart of Christiania, a hippie "freetown" in Copenhagen that upholds the ideals of the flower-power hippie era.
Once an army arsenal, Christiania was occupied by hippies in 1971, and it obtained legal recognition as a "social experiment" 15 years after the world had counted the hippie movement passé.
The hippie movement was at its height, and Christiania was steeped in corruption.
www.charismamag.com /display.php?id=163   (2747 words)

  
 Boston.com / Travel / Destinations / Europe / 'Hygge' heaven
Christiania, or ''Freetown," is an 80-acre section of the city that once was a military fortress.
Christiania, however, is most famous for Pusher Street, where over a dozen market stalls openly sell hash and marijuana (which are not legal in Denmark).
Many non-hippie citizens of Copenhagen are sympathetic to Christiania as a manifestation of their country's eccentric, anti-authoritarian character.
www.boston.com /travel/getaways/europe/articles/2003/09/28/hygge_heaven?pg=full   (2094 words)

  
 CIHSE - Study Report - Copenhagen, September 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christiania is a freetown in the middle of Copenhagen which emerged in 1970 when squatters moved into a disused 34 hectare military base.
The early squatters moved into the buildings left by the military, but as Christiania became established, children were born and families moved further out and built their own homes in a pleasant rural setting by the lake.
In the early 1970s, the government recognised Christiania as a social experiment and an agreement was made whereby Christiania would pay for drainage, water and electricity.
www.cihse.co.uk /main/study_copenhagen.php   (7656 words)

  
 TrekEarth | Christiania Photo
This is the entrance of the freetown of Christiania.
The most famous part of this freetown is "Pusherstreet", where hash was sold openly until 2004.
It is not sure if Christiania will exist in the future, cause the right gouverment wants to build new appartments on this pretty green area, close to the centre and the water.
www.trekearth.com /gallery/Europe/Denmark/East/Kobenhavn/Christiania/photo108637.htm   (261 words)

  
 The Ramblings of Insomniacs: Freetown Christiania
So Christiania is a partially self-governing neighborhood in the city of Copenhagen.
And chica, I just came back from a country where part of it (which I stayed in) could be considered third world, so I'm pretty sure Christiania is not nearly as bad.
If they were living in bamboo huts with a water source contaminated cholera and dysentery, then it might be third world, but since I am sure they get clean running water, it is surely not the case.
copenhagen8.blogspot.com /2005/09/freetown-christiania.html   (1008 words)

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