The City Campus is one of the

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's four campuses in

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. It is home to the Faculty of Social Sciences and parts of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the

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. The main campus area, the Center for Health and Society ( da, Center for Sundhed og Samfund, abbr. CSS), is situated on Øster Farimagsgade, across the street from the University's

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, which is also part of the campus area. The City Campus also comprises a building on

Øster Voldgade Øster Voldgade (literal translation, lit. "East Rampart Street"), together with Vester Voldgade and Nørre Voldgade, forms a succession of large streets which arches around the central and oldest part of the Zealand side of Copenhagen, Denmark. ...

(Mo. 10) and the university headquarters on Frue Plads.

Overview

In all, the City Campus occupies five sites: * Center for Health and Society *

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(Natural History Museum) * Geocentre Copenhagen, which is located on

. It houses the Department of Geography and Geology and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. * The University Quadrangle, which is located on Frue Plads and used mainly for administration and representation. * Købmagergade 44-46, which is home to the

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. The faculty will move to the university's South Campus in the Winter of 2016-2017.

Center for Health and Society

The Center for Health and Society is located in the former

Copenhagen Municipal Hospital Copenhagen Municipal Hospital ( Danish: Københavns Kommunehospital) was a hospital that existed from 1863 until 1999 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Its buildings, located on Øster Farimagsgade, opposite Copenhagen Botanical Garden, now form part of the ...

. As of January 2016, the Centre houses the entire Faculty of Social Sciences, most of the Department of Public Health and the Copenhagen School of Global Health.

History

The Copenhagen Municipal Hospital was one of the first buildings to be constructed on the

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outside of the North Rampart when the fortifications were decommissioned. It was the first major project to be designed by Copenhagen's new city architect, Christian Hansen, who had recently returned to Denmark from

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. Construction began in 1859 and the hospital was inaugurated on 19 September 1863. Christian Hansen's original hospital building consisted of two three-story main wings joined together by two connectors. In 1954, the complex was expanded by city architect Frederik Christian Lund in a style similar to that of the original buildings. The Copenhagen Municipal Hospital closed on 1 May 1999. The buildings were then taken over by University of Copenhagen. In 2005, the university established the Center for Health and Society in the former Copenhagen Municipal Hospital. A new building designed by Erik Møller Arkitekter was completed on the corner of Øster Farimagsgade and Gammeltoftsgade in 2013. It contains auditoriums for the University as well as a daycare for children of university faculty.

Copenhagen Botanical Garden

The University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden covers an area of 10

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s and is particularly noted for its extensive complex of historical glasshouses. The garden is part of the

Natural History Museum of Denmark The Natural History Museum of Denmark ( da, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum) is a natural history museum located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was created as a 1 January 2004 merger of Copenhagen's Zoological Museum, Geological Museum, Botanical M ...

, which is itself part of the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Science. It serves both research, educational and recreational purposes. The Botanical Garden had previously been located at

Charlottenborg Palace Charlottenborg Palace ( da, Charlottenborg Slot) is a large town mansion located on the corner of Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn in Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally built as a residence for Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, it has served as the base of the ...

, and was relocated to its new site in 1870.

References

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