A wealth of innovations and urban representations have been accumulated through town planning competitions. Such contests have also mediated social ethos and professional practice to respond to pressures for change in the built environment. Presenting a detailed record of the town planning competition for Copenhagen, this book explores many different approaches to cope with the temporal character of urban change. In doing so the book throws new light on the Civic Art stream of design in Europe that echoed with the National Romantic movement in Denmark. The first section is devoted to the 31...