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GENERAL CATALOGUE
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Leben zwischen Häusern Konzepte für den öffentlichen Raum Editor: Jan Gehl Author: Jan Gehl GERMAN 200 Pages with 320 b/w Images Softcover Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm Euro 28.00 sFr 38.00 ISBN 978-3-86859-146-0 Date of publication: April 2012  Sample Pages |
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In his book Life between buildings, the Danish architect Jan Gehl, who is among the world’s most prominent urban planners, elucidates the fundamental importance of intelligent spatial planning to successful communal coexistence in our cities. Jan Gehl identifies the essential cornerstones for improving quality of life.
The focus of his observations is on people, whose essential needs should be the basis for the design of public spaces. Unlike architecture—which, like other aspects of our lives, is subject to changing fashions—there criteria are remarkably constant and unchanging. The book—which was published for the first time in the original Danish over 40 years ago and has since been translated into more than 50 languages—has lost none of its relevance. Instead, it continues to offer us suggestions for critically improving the quality of life in our world that, while they are surprising, also cut to the heart of the issue. This is the first time that this classic of urban planning literature has appeared in German.
Press: "Genaugenommen ist das Buch “Leben zwischen Häusern“ ein Manifest. Ein Manifest gegen die unbedachte Modernisierung der Städte, die Ideologien folgt, jedoch bei all den neuen Erkenntnissen über zeitgemäßes Wohnen die Bewohner vergisst. Architektur und Planung, das wird bei Jan Gehl deutlich, haben nicht nur einen Auftrag, sondern auch Verantwortung. Und genau um diese geht es ihm...." urbanoREVIEW/URBANOPHIL |
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