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Life Between Buildings:

Using Public Space
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3 Reviews
Island Press, May 25, 2008 - Architecture - 200 pages
“. . .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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User Review  - Jill - Goodreads

Another urban design classic. First published in 1971, Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space, as its name suggests, talks about the issues planners and designers should think about in creative ... Read full review

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User Review  - Evie - Goodreads

i read this to the end, without skipping even a paragraph and its not a fiction book so i guess this means life between buildings was a very interesting book! its packed with useful information about ... Read full review

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Contents

Foreword
7
Outdoor Activities and Quality of Outdoor Space
31
Life Between Buildings in Current Social Situations
49
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

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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