Abstract
The new national stadium in Copenhagen has been erected next to an historic group of cottages at the village of Brumleby. This paper starts by using an autobiographical account of the authors growing awareness of the new stadium as he returns to his city after a period of absence of many years. The image projected by the developers of the stadium is not found to be congruent with the reality and as a result of the changing nature of the power relationships resulting from the stadiums construction, the quality of life of the people of Brumleby has been reduced. This is an example of the way the urban stadium is showing us the new aesthetic in our time.
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