Other former industrial sites are also under redevelopment and Valby is today one of the districts in Copenhagen with the fastest growing population.

The most distinctive geographical features of the district are Valby Hill in its north-eastern corner and Harrestrup Å which marks its western boundary.

In the early Middle Ages both villages came under Utterslev,[4] a Crown estate which included most of the area around Havn, the small market town which later became Copenhagen.

In 1167, Valdemar I granted both Havn and the Utterslev estate to the Bishop's Seat of Roskilde but in 1417 the villages came under the Crown once again when King Eric VII made Copenhagen a royal possession.

The first holder of the license was Hans Pedersen Bladt, a skillful merchant who was elected mayor of Copenhagen in 1675.

It is said that Queen Marie Sophie, consort of King Frederick VI, often rode through Valby, handing out candy to the children.

[3] In 1721, the king granted the community new trading privileges and a Rytterskole, a precursor of the Danish public school, was built the following year.

Instead Valby began to develop into an area where members of the bourgeoisie took up summer residency, a practice which spread from adjoining Frederiksberg.

The station was originally meant to serve mostly leisure trips to nearby Frederiksberg; it had a booming traffic in the railway's first years, which however dwindled as the novelty wore off.

This attracted the brew master J. C. Jacobsen to the site and he founded his Carlsberg Brewery in 1847 on the eastern slopes of the hill.

The remains of Old Valby are located in the northern part of the district on Valby Langgade, the old road to Roskilde, which today extends from Carlsberg, as the continuation of Pile Allé, and runs west along the municipal border with Frederiksberg until it finally joins the new Roskildevej at Damhus Lake.

New facilities on the square include ball cages, a climbing wall made out of glass and a mobile stage.

The 34-year-old architect Christian Mandrup-Poulsen was commissioned to design the development and the foundation stone for the first house was set on 26 November 1899.

Mandrup-Poulsen created seven different house types but all were white with red tile roofs and green window frames and fences.

[11][12] Located off Gammel Køge Landevej, Valby Sports Park contains a multi-purpose stadium which is mainly used for football.

Some regional and intercity trains also stop at Valby, mainly to provide transfers to the Frederikssund S-trains.

Langgade station near Valby's eastern border with Kongens Enghave is also located on the Frederikssund line.