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Synopsis
. . .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
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Review
."..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
..".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
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.
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- PublisherVan Nostrand Reinhold
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0442230117
- ISBN 13 9780442230111
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages202
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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (English and Danish Edition)
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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
Published by
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ISBN 10: 0442230117
ISBN 13: 9780442230111
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