The art of city life is about the art of city life - with a focus on Copenhagen. It's about the art of living in the city, coming to terms with the city, coming to terms with a development where the big city is getting bigger and bigger. But it is also about the big city as a challenge for the artists, from Oehlensläger, Grundtvig and Kierkegaard to Johs. V. Jensen, Palle Nielsen and Morten Søndergaard. Last, but not least, it is about the establishments - Tivoli, Zoologisk Have, Panoramaet and Panoptikon - which, like cities within the city, reduce the metropolis to the entertaining and affordable format of the miniature. Big and small, then? Yes, but as a continuous and unifying theme.
