Welcome to Reijkavik
- HISTORY (INCEPTION OR ORIGIN AND IF THEY ARE TRADITIONAL CITIES OR NEW CITIES)
Reykjavik is as old as 870 but it was only a small town not even close to a city, the city has officially been a city for 234 years so it can be considered to be a new city
Ingólfur Anarson was the first settler to set foot on the island, he landed where Reijavik is now on an he named the city ‘’smokey bay’’after allegedly seeing nearby hot springs
Demographic size
The city of Reykjavik covers a total surface area of 273 kilometer squared (105 square mile). The population density comes to approximately 451.5 people living per square kilometer (1,169 people living per square mile).
-Reykjavik Population 2022 135,42
Urban morfology
Urban hierarchy
Urban layout
Reykjavik has an orthogonal layout
Reykjavik is a small city by world standards but has a large domestic level as it has a third of the country's total population, yet it is only considered a city.
Reykjavik started as a small town and over the time grew until what it has become today.
We can say with uncertainty that the original layout was irregular and walled off. Nowadays the old part of the city although irregular is very well structured and all of the city and it’s surroundings are of an orthogonal layout, so we are left of today with a very well structured city that got that way because the old part of the city is very small and because it was very well built from the start, truly urban brilliance
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ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS
The Icelandic capital of Reykjavik attracts investment in tourism and fisheries, but its talents extend beyond these two traditional strengths.
It’s mainly second and third economic sectors
- INTERNAL TRANSPORTATION
There are no metros, ferry or trains in reykjavik but there is a bus service.
The bus service is run by Straeto BS, which is a service provided by Reykjavik city. There are 27 routes in the city itself and 18 outside of the city. The service usually opens at 6:30 weekdays, 7:30 on saturday and 9:30 on sunday and public holidays. If you visit the city you can get a the Reykjavík City Card. The card gives you 24, 48 or 72 hours unlimited travel on the city busses as well as admission to major attractions and discounts at shops and restaurants.
Straeto Bs
- TYPE OF DWELLINGS
Detached house 22,033
Semi-detached houses 7540
3-5 apartment buildings 12702
6-12 apartment buildings 20484
13 and more apartment buildings 22964
Non-residential building
- RESIDENTIAL SUBURBS
Vesturbær, or the West Town in Reykjavík, is mostly residential, with increasing tourist-related commercial activity in the harbor area and Grandi. When Reykjavík was growing as a town at the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, the logical direction was west of the city center, by the shoreline. At that time, houses popped up without any plan or organized land development. It wasn’t until 1927 that the growing town introduced a development plan for the city of Reykjavík.
- BUSINESS CENTRE OR INDUSTRIAL CENTRE
Today, Reykjavík's business district is located in Borgartún, while Bankastræti serves as a natural extension of Laugavegur, consisting mostly of shops and restaurants.
- SMART CITY:
Reykjavik strives to become a Smart City, because a Smart City is a city that uses information, communications and telecommunications technology to improve the quality of life in a sustainable way.
SMART STREETLIGHTS
The Icelandic capital, and at the same time the largest city in the country, has equipped itself with a smart public lighting installation
- WASTE MANAGEMENT
-"INVISIBLE" WALLS THAT MAKE SOCIAL SEGREGATION POSSIBLE
We fortunatelly cannot see any invisible walls that socially segregate the population this may be because Iceland is one of the most democratic nations in the world with a high gdp per capita that makes financial inequality much more difficult to make an impact, there are also a high homogenous population around 80 per cent are ethnically icelandic and the rest are also white european making racial segregation virtually impossible but the main reason is the planing itself, it is brilliant and one of the best in europe if not the world.
- COMMON PATTERNS DEPENDING ON THE CONTINENT
The city of Reikiavik has a similar pattern to other northern european countries such as denmark on norway, it is resembled to cities like oslo or bergen because of its location as a coastal city and the importance of fishing in the urban morphology but also because of the harsh winter climate that all of northern cities share.
- GREEN CITY (SUSTAINABLE)
For Reykjavik's buildings, roughly 95% of heating is provided by geothermal district heating. Much of the reason that Iceland leads the world in renewable energy and geothermal heating is due to renewable energy sourced from the unique topography of the country
Reykjavik meets nearly all of its electricity and heating needs from renewable resources (predominately from geothermal and hydroelectric sources).
- VIDEO HYPERLAPSE
Landfilling is the primary waste management method in Iceland, and landfills are run by municipalities or through inter-municipal cooperation.
The government can send to you different colored bins for recycling
OUTSKIRTS
Breiðholt
Árbær
Grafarvogur
These are the three main outskirts of the city, this places resemble suburbs they are on average of a 30 minute ride to get to the centre even the farthest part of a suburb won’t take you more of a 35 minute car drive a true testament of the city planning
FUTILE URBANISATION
Luckilly there are no clear examples of futile urbanisation in the city
Strenghs and weaknesses
It's a very clean, well-desing, smart city but it is also very far from another country and poorly connected to the rest of europe
SECURITY
Since the country is one of the safest in the world (in the top 5) the need for predatory methods of security are zero, the country ranks in fewest crimes per capita, the police don’t carry guns and there is no military in the country.
Contacto
500 Terry Francois Street, 6th Floor. San Francisco, CA 94158
123-456-7890