København / Copenhagen: Urban Architecture and Public Spaces maps the built forces behind one of the world's most liveable cities, taking readers through more than 25 exceptional buildings, squares, and public spaces completed across the past decade.
About This Book
Copenhagen has become a global reference point for urban design — a city where architecture, public space, and quality of life are treated as inseparable. This book makes the case through built evidence, moving district by district from Ørestadt to Nordhavn and documenting the projects that have shaped contemporary Copenhagen. Each entry is presented through photographs, general plans, and critical texts, together tracing the ambitions of a generation of architects and planners willing to pursue genuinely novel urban solutions. For practitioners and students of urban architecture, it is both a precise field guide and a case study in what coherent city-making can look like.
Key Features
- 304 pages of documentary photography, general plans, and project texts across more than 25 built works
- Published by Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 9783955535384
What You'll Discover
- How Copenhagen's urban districts — from Ørestadt to Nordhavn — have been transformed through deliberate architectural and planning decisions
- The design thinking behind more than 25 buildings, urban squares, and public spaces completed within the past ten years
- The relationship between spatial quality and everyday livability, explored through documented built outcomes rather than theory
- A portrait of a contemporary Scandinavian architectural culture that treats risk and innovation in public space as a civic responsibility
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 250 x 195 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783955535384
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Urban designers, architects, and planners with an interest in Scandinavian city-making, as well as students and researchers studying contemporary public space and liveable cities.