Great Danes - Copenhagen as Europe's cultural capital

Architectural Review, The, Dec, 1996 by Peter Davey

I am far from uncritical of Copenhagen's past (or its future). There are very serious threats to its complexity and human scale. But in the Danish capital, there is a suggestion that a city is to be enjoyed by all its citizens: a proposal of the modest, generous, kindly, varied community that expresses its ethos in clearly made, honest buildings that understand the nature of materials, space and light, and how these can be used to relate the individual to society in multifarious ways.

The city's history, and its presence today give hope that its humane ethos is strong enough to tame and absorb even the most destructive of contemporary trends.