The Emergence of a Modern City

Golden Age Copenhagen 1800–1850

Henriette Steiner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25706-1 (ISBN)

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This book is an exploration of how urban life in Copenhagen, in the period known as the Golden Age (c. 1800 to 1850), was experienced and structured socially, institutionally, and architecturally. It draws on a broad historical source material - spanning urban anecdotes, biography, philosophy, literature, and visual culture - to do so. The book argues that Copenhagen emerged as a modern city at this time, despite the fact that the Golden Age never witnessed the appearance of the main characteristics of the modernisation of cities associated with industrialisation, such as street lighting, sewer systems, and railroads. The book outlines the historical and topographical context of Copenhagen in the Golden Age with a special focus on the works of the most prominent architect of the period, C.F. Hansen. The characterisation of the city is complemented by investigations into writings of three citizens: the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, the novelist Thomasine Gyllembourg, and the criminal Ole Kollerod, who all take an interest in the city's institutional and urban structures as well as their own place in it. From these different sources, a picture is painted of urban life and thought at a time when the city began to take on characteristics of ambiguity and alienation in European thinking, while at the same time the city itself retained some pre-modern motifs of a symbolic order. This transformation is set in a larger process of cultural re-orientation, from traditional Baroque culture to what might be termed Romantic culture. The book reconsiders the significance of this transformation for the emergent order of the modern European city in the nineteenth century and thus of the very foundation on which our own urban culture rests.

Henriette Steiner is Associate Professor in the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She graduated with a PhD from the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, UK in 2008, after which she worked for five years as a Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Her research and publications cross disciplinary boundaries between architecture and the humanities, and her research interests concern the way the modern city has been represented and discussed, read and interpreted.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Situating Golden Age Copenhagen; Chapter 2 Narratives of Urban Life; Chapter 3 Kierkegaard’s Copenhagen and Philosophies of the Modern City; Chapter 4 Epilogue: On the City as World;

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-138-25706-0 / 1138257060
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25706-1 / 9781138257061
Zustand	Neuware