included a good deal more greenery than Seidelin. Common to both proposals is the fact that the old urban structure is left intact, which naturally caused problems when it came to linking it with the new areas. In both cases, however, some effort does seem to have been made to find a solution to this problem, particularly in the demolition committee's proposal. The demolition committee's proposal was publicly displayed in 1865, and was criticized for its high level of exploitation. Among those submitting comments. the Academy of Art declared that the arca of the ramparts proper should be laid out as a girdle of parkland round the centre of the city. This proposal, which was probably launched first by the city engineer LA Colding," was presented in a schematic plan made by Ferdinand Meldahl, who was a professor at the Academy and at the time one of Denmark's leading architects The mnat was to be retained, a n idea which alsn appeared in a plan submitted the following year by a municipal expert committee, but possibly executed prior to Meldahl's(figure 10.5). In this plan the area of the moat has hcen kept more or less intact, while the rest is organizcd in a rathcr mnimaginativc grid without open places or broad sueets. When Meldahl was elected to the town council he was able to put his ideas forward from within the municipal system. There were thus two clearly formulated alternatives to discuss: one involved heavier exploitation. but claimed to avoid too great a spread of suhurban huilding, while the other would provide a girdle of parkland round the old city but more suburban spread. The advocates of the first solution wanted to avoid dividing