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Author Steiner, Henriette

Title The Emergence of a Modern City : Golden Age Copenhagen 1800-1850
Published Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Situating Golden Age Copenhagen; Arrival in the City; The Case of Golden Age Copenhagen; Urban Institutions in the New City: Re-configuration as Re-orientation; 2 Narratives of Urban Life; Seduced by the City, or the Diary of an Attendant in Copenhagen; A Room But No View: Staging the Bourgeois Home; In and Against the Institutions: Love and Pleasure in Golden Age Copenhagen; 3 Kierkegaard's Copenhagen and Philosophies of the Modern City; In the Crowd and in the Garden: The City in the Mirror
The One and the Many, or the Life of the CitySpaces of Transition in Copenhagen: Kierkegaard, Voegelin, and the Modern Urban Situation; Epilogue: On the City as World; List of References; Index
Summary During Denmark's 'Golden Age' (c. 1800 to 1850), Copenhagen came into being as a modern city on the urban-cultural level. This book examines this period in the city's history, just before the establishment of some of the main features of the modernisation of cities associated with industrialisation, such as street lighting, sewer systems, and working class quarters. it assess the work of the most prominent architect of the period, C.F. Hansen in transforming the city physically, before moving on to consider writings by three citizens of Copenhagen, the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, the noveli
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Hansen, Christian Frederik, 1756-1845 fast
Subject Copenhagen (Denmark) -- In literature
Copenhagen (Denmark) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Hansen, Christian Frederik, 1756-1845 -- Criticism and interpretation
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Literature
Social conditions
Denmark -- Copenhagen
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781472413260
1472413261
1306714230
9781306714235