Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants. He is the author of Life Between Buildings and Public Spaces, Public Life. He has received numerous awards for his work and is widely credited with creating and renewing urban spaces in cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, London, and many others. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.
"The partners of pedestrian life he has observed and the
recommendations he has made are highly applicable to American
cities...A splendid piece of work."
-- "City- Rediscovering the Center"
"This book should mark a milestone for studies of the way people
attribute meaning to and use public spaces in many countries.
Owning it is a must for environmental design teachers and
practitioners."
-- "Plan Canada"
"This book will have a lasting influence on the future quality of
public open spaces. By helping us better understand the large
public life of cities, Life Between Buildings can 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 Magazine"
"...this is a book that is a great inspiration to me in my work,
and I look upon it as one of the classics for all professional or
amateur students of architecture and community building, regardless
of their age and background, or how short or long their experience
may be."
--Ralph Erskine "from the foreword to Life Between Buildings"
"Thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening"
--Jane Jacobs
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