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. br br 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 ..

". . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening..." br --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." br --Landscape 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. br br 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 t ..

Jan Gehls fast f nfzig Jahre umspannendes Werk untersucht die Wechselwirkung von ffentlichem Raum und ffentlichem Leben. Die Analyse des Lebens im ffentlichen Raum ist jedoch nicht nur eine Forschungsaufgabe, sondern auch ein politisches Werkzeug: mit seiner Hilfe lassen sich Ver nderungen ber einen l ngeren Zeitraum hinweg dokumentieren und die Bedingungen zur Verbesserung der urbanen Lebensqualit t schaffen. Der Bestseller "How to study public life" von Jan Gehl und Birgitte Bundesen-Svarre liegt nun erstmals als deutschsprachige Ausgabe vor. Sie liefert wertvolle Anregungen, wie wir unsere St dte im 21. Jahrhundert attraktiver, nachhaltiger, sicherer un ..