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This master thesis examines how a newly built neighborhood in Copenhagen is able to accommodate public life. This study is done as critics have highlighted how newly built neighborhoods in Copenhagen often lack opportunities for people to engage with public life. In order to bring new insights, the thesis particularly looks at public life through the users’ experience and use of a neighborhood’s public spaces, and how these perceptions and understandings affect public life.This is done through the case study of Strandlodsvej, a newly built neighborhood located in Amager Northeast. With an empirical approach, through interviews, as well as observations and spatial analysis, this study highlights that public life in newly built neighborhoods can be accommodated due to some physical aspects of the neighborhood, its users and them relating to one another, as well as existing and new practices. In turn, the insights stemming from the Strandlodsvej case shows how the users’ experience and perception of the urban fabric, the planned mobility, and the diversity in people affects how users engage with and relate to public life. Furthermore, this paper shows how users are and are not able to engage with the neighborhood and its opportunities through their meanings and interpretation, as well as how some users engage in initiatives, appropriations and alterations, and how these aspects affect public life.This paper generates new insights in how a newly built neighborhood of Copenhagen is used and experienced by different users and how that affects the ability of the neighborhood to accommodate public life. Therefore, this research serves scholars, researchers, and others interested in current trends focusing on urban development procedures, and how such developments can better support the accommodation of public life. Also, the paper contributes to professionals interested in better addressing users when developing public opportunities within the city.

Ce mémoire porte sur la continuité des rituels divinatoires païens dans le cadre du culte chrétien en Gaule du IVe au VIe siècle. Il comporte une introduction rapportant notre problématique, notre terminologie, notre méthodologie ainsi que nos sources principales. Par la suite, le développement aborde les rites divinatoires des Sortes Sanctorum, des Sortes Sangallenses et les rites d’incubation dans le culte de Saint Martin de Tours. Pour chacun de ces cas, nous étudions leur provenance, leurs sources, leur déroulement, leur évolution et les similarités qui permettent de faire un lien avec des rituels païens déjà existants. Nous avons vérifié l’existence de cette continuité et déterminé qu’elle passait par plusieurs phénomènes, l’acculturation gauloise des rituels gréco-romains, l’importation de rites christianisés en Orient et l’assimilation des pratiques païennes locales par le culte chrétien pour répondre à une demande de divination par la population., This Masters’ thesis concerns itself with the continuity of pagan divination rituals within the new context of the Christianized Gaul of the IVth to VIth centuries. It is composed of an introduction detailing our hypothesis, terminology, methodology and sources. Afterwards, we study three cases of divination rituals, the Sortes Sanctorum, the Sortes Sangallenses and the incubations within the cult of St. Martin of Tours. We detail their origins, sources, proceedings, evolution and the similarities linking them to previously existing pagan rites. In conclusion, we synthesize all elements and we were able to draw from our cases to establish the continuity of these rituals by several means, the Gallic acculturation of Greco-Roman rituals, importation of Christianized rituals from the East of the Empire and assimilation of local pagan practices within the Christian religion to answer the popular demand for divination.