Jan Gehl

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, Cities for People, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and...

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 centres of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been...

Life Between Buildings is described as "thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening" by 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 towards more lively and healthy public places. Landscape Architecture advises: buy this book, find...