title: Urban (newspaper)
text: # Urban (newspaper)
  
  Urban was a Danish free daily newspaper owned by Det Berlingske Officin.
  
  ## History and profile
  
  Urban was launched on 24 September 2001, shortly after the competing free daily MetroXpress (the Danish edition of the Metro newspaper).
  
  In its first year Urban had a circulation 108,000 copies. It was 181,000 copies in 2002 and 171,000 copies in 2003. Urban had a circulation of 330,000 copies both in 2006 and in 2007. The circulation in second half of 2008 was 196,752.
  
  Urban was closed on 12 January 2012.
  
  