Life Between Buildings : Using Public Space

Jan Gehl

ISBN 10: 1597268275 / ISBN 13: 9781597268271

Editore: Island Press Jan 2011, 2011

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Neuware - '. . .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. Codice articolo 9781597268271

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Titolo: Life Between Buildings : Using Public Space

Casa editrice: Island Press Jan 2011

Data di pubblicazione: 2011

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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“. . .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

Informazioni sull?autore:

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.