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Ambiguous Belonging
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C.F. Hansen studies
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Christiansborg Castle
copenhagen
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Demarcation
Demarcation Line
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Frederiksborg Castle
golden
Golden Age Copenhagen
Gothic Visions
gyllembourg
Har Man
kierkegaards
Mathilde Fibiger
Modern Urban Culture
nineteenth century Denmark
Nineteenth Century Urban Culture
Nyt Nordisk Forlag
Og Den
Romantic urbanism
situation
social transformation
Thomas Overskou
thomasine
Thomasine Gyllembourg
Town Hall
urban
urban cultural re-orientation Copenhagen
urban modernity
Vor Frue Kirke
writings
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138257061
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
