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An example of a forward-thinking approach to municipal hubs is being used in the planning of one in and around Copenhagen, Denmark. The ten municipalities there are working with the Danish design firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) on a project called LOOP City, which would create a light rail system that extends around the entirety of Greater Copenhagen. The LOOP City light rail would have twenty-eight stops and provide the transportation infrastructure necessary for land outside the city to be more accessible and urbanization to be able to expand. BIG estimates that LOOP City will make enough land accessible that housing for 325,000 people and 280,000 workspaces can be built.13 According to BIG, “The infrastructure could become the base for a new sustainable ring of development around Copenhagen, and an artery of true urbanity pumping life into the heart of the suburbs.”14 They hope to have the light rail operational by 2024, and expect it to support the sustainable growth of the region for the next fifty years.