2024-11-21T13:09:29-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150142142/atlas-of-the-copenhagens-book-review Hannah Wood 2019-06-19T10:18:00-04:00 >2019-06-19T13:45:46-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/78/78f67d5e62b5edc1d3700dd724c174b9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The past two decades have seen a marked increase in city ranking indexes and urban metrics, yet across the board American cities continue to score poorly&mdash;last year no US cities made the top 25 in lifestyle magazine Monocle's <a href="https://monocle.com/film/affairs/quality-of-life-survey-top-25-cities-2018/" target="_blank">Quality of Life Survey</a>. On the opposite end of the spectrum lies Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark, presented time and again as one of the world&rsquo;s most &lsquo;liveable&rsquo; cities and celebrated as a global model of sustainable urban development. In the run-up to this year&rsquo;s rankings, we look closer at <a href="http://ruby-press.com/shop/atlas-of-the-copenhagens/" target="_blank"><em>Atlas of the Copenhagens</em></a>, a thoughtful and engaging book edited by Deane Simpson, Kathrin Gimmel, Anders Lonka, Marc Jay, and Joost Grootens, to explore the multiplicity and complexities of Copenhagen today and how the city can begin to inspire new ways of analysing and interpreting the urban environments around us.</p>