“. . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening...” —Jane Jacobs
“This book will have a lasting infl uence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, fi nd a comfortable place to sit in a public park or plaza, begin reading, look around. You will be surprised at how you will start to see (and design) the world differently.” —Landscape Architecture
Text: English, Danish (translation)
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
About the Author
Jan Gehl is an architect and professor of urban design at the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has been awarded the Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to town planning by the International Union of Architects as well as an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Few books - if any - have had a stronger impact on Scandanavian architecture and planning in recent years than this one has had.
Jan Gehl, senior lecturer in urban design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architectiur in Copenhagen, has widely and extensively studied how people use public spaces and how planning and architecture encourage or discourage social activities and public life.
His strong advocacy and detailed proposals for a humanistics approach to architecture, as presented in this book, is now available for the first time in English. --- from book's back cover
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This review is from: Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
This is a fantastic book, putting substance and quantitative research behind urban planning. It isn't about the art of urban design, but how spaces are actually used, why, and what designers can do to improve cities.
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