Gellerup

Gellerup is a large area of concrete flats built in the 1960s in Aarhus, Denmark. It was originally built to house all the workers in Aarhus, and was not meant to last more than 30 years. But the need for housing in Aarhus, explains why it is still here today, more than four decades after it was built.

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Gellerup is known throughout Denmark for it's large concentration of people with a foreign background and it is one of only a few ghettos in Denmark; Vollsmose in Odense, being another.

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Concrete: :This article is about the construction material. For the philosophical term, see Concrete (philosophy). For the comic book, see Concrete (comics). For the film see Concrete (film)....

1960s: The 1960s, or The Sexy Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. The Sixties has come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximatel...

Aarhus: :For the Aarhus convention on public participation, see Aarhus Convention....