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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space - Softcover

Gehl, Jan

 
9788774073604: Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8774073605 ISBN 13: 9788774073604
Publisher: Danish Architectural Pr, 2008

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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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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Publisher
Danish Architectural Pr
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8774073605
ISBN 13 
9788774073604
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
200