And that's just Copenhagen proper, a relatively narrow geographical definition. The city has expanded to absorb many of the outlying towns, turning them into neighborhoods and suburbs. The population for Greater Copenhagen is 1,335,000.
An over tenfold increase in population (and a significant increase in area) can't really be said to be "roughly the same population".
Have other cities grown more? Sure. But cities 200 years ago were all tiny compared to today, all over the world.
Yea I phrased this wrong, you're right of course. What I meant to say was that the highly urbanized areas in which these 200 year old apartment blocks stand were already urbanized back then, while newer apartment blocks are probably in areas that were pastures or villages back then. So it wouldn't have made sense to build high density apartment blocks there 200 years ago. European capitals are some of the few places that had this kind of urbanization 200 years ago.
Population of Copenhagen today: 795,000.
And that's just Copenhagen proper, a relatively narrow geographical definition. The city has expanded to absorb many of the outlying towns, turning them into neighborhoods and suburbs. The population for Greater Copenhagen is 1,335,000.
An over tenfold increase in population (and a significant increase in area) can't really be said to be "roughly the same population".
Have other cities grown more? Sure. But cities 200 years ago were all tiny compared to today, all over the world.