  urlLink Guardian Unlimited Travel | Countries | Grass routes : "The bigger change may now come from plans by the coalition centre-right government in Denmark to rid the capital of this early example of a sustainable eco-living.
After 33 varying years of tolerance, support or condemnation, the final death rattle of hippiedom in mainland Europe may be about to take place in this small corner of Copenhagen. Which would be a crying shame. For the European cannabis connoisseur, or simply the more radical or politicised traveller, Christiania offers not just a refuge from the stag do and US frat boys of Amsterdam, but a vision of a sustainable future along the lines of Noam Chomsky's anarcho-syndicalism.
Although no longer accepting new residents, the 1,000 or so existing inhabitants (from all over the world - not just Danes) decide things communally through a self-government based on the 'Common Meeting'. There are no laws, and only four 'rules' - no hard drugs, no weapons, no violence and no trading within buildings or residential areas. " 
