Life Between Buildings is Jan Gehl?s classic text on the importance of designing urban public space with the fundamental desires of people as guiding principles. The book describes essential elements that contribute to people?s enjoyment of spaces in the public realm. These elements remain remarkably constant even as architectural styles go in and out of fashion and the character of the ?life between buildings? changes. The enduring relevance of Life Between Buildings, originally published in Danish over forty years ago and subsequently translated into fifteen languages, is a testament to Jan?s straightforward approach. This book provides both inspiration and information for those who wish to elevate the livability of cities and towns around the world. ?. . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening...? ?Jane Jacobs ?This book will have a lasting influence 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, find 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

Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (English and Danish Edition)

GEHL, Jan

Business & Money

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast- growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.

Cities for People

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Island Press

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. Inthis revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast- growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.

Sociology

Island Pr

“. . .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

Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space

Arts & Photography

Architecture

How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been examining this question since the 1960s, when few urban designers or planners were thinking about designing cities for people. But given the unpredictable, complex and ephemeral nature of life in cities, how can we best design public infrastructure—vital to cities for getting from place to place, or staying in place—for human use? Studying city life and understanding the factors that encourage or discourage use is the key to designing inviting public space. In How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre draw from their combined experience of over 50 years to provide a history of public-life study as well as methods and tools necessary to recapture city life as an important planning dimension. This type of systematic study began in earnest in the 1960s, when several researchers and journalists on different continents criticized urban planning for having forgotten life in the city. City life studies provide knowledge about human behavior in the built environment in an attempt to put it on an equal footing with knowledge about urban elements such as buildings and transport systems. Studies can be used as input in the decision-making process, as part of overall planning, or in designing individual projects such as streets, squares or parks. The original goal is still the goal today: to recapture city life as an important planning dimension. Anyone interested in improving city life will find inspiration, tools, and examples in this invaluable guide.

How to Study Public Life

Svarre, Birgitte

POUR DES VILLES A ECHELLE HUMAINE

Reference

ECOSOCIETE

Leben zwischen Häusern: Konzepte für den öffentlichen Raum (German Edition)

JOVIS

Este libro analiza por qué el uso del automóvil deteriora la calidad urbana, por qué los edificios residenciales altos son inconvenientes, qué hace que una calle sea atractiva para caminar, por qué en una ciudad sana los espacios públicos, y no los centros comerciales, son el lugar de encuetro, cuántos bancos debe haber en

La humanización del espacio urbano: La vida social entre los edificios (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Reverté

Life between buildings: using public space

A classic is republished "Life between buildings" was first published in 1971. This book frequently revised over the years is still the best source for understanding how people use public spaces in our cities. Published in many languages, it is a standard textbook in Architecture and Planning Schools around the world, and continues to be the undisputed basic introduction to the interplay between public space design and social life. This book is now available in its fourth English language edition.

Life Between buildings

The Danish Architectural Press

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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (English and Danish Edition)

Cities for People

Cities for People

Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space

How to Study Public Life

POUR DES VILLES A ECHELLE HUMAINE

Leben zwischen Häusern: Konzepte für den öffentlichen Raum (German Edition)

La humanización del espacio urbano: La vida social entre los edificios (Spanish Edition)

Life between buildings: using public space

Life Between buildings