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How to Study Public Life
By Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre
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How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgto answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the mvibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance.
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 to place, or staying in place—for human use? Studying city life and understanding the factors that encourage or discourage use is the key to designing inviting public space.
In How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre draw from their combined experience of over 50 years to provide a history of public-life study as well as methods and tools necessary to recapture city life as an important planning dimension.
This type of systematic study began in earnest in the 1960s, when several researchers and journalists on differcontinents criticized urban planning for having forgotten life in the city. City life studies provide knowledge about human behavior in the built environmin an attempt to put it on an equal footing with knowledge about urban elements such as buildings and transport systems. Studies can be used as input in the decision-making process, as part of overall planning, or in designing individual projects such as streets, squares or parks. The original goal is still the goal today: to recapture city life as an important planning dimension. Anyone interested in improving city life will find inspiration, tools, and examples in this invaluable guide.
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 to place, or staying in place—for human use? Studying city life and understanding the factors that encourage or discourage use is the key to designing inviting public space.
In How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre draw from their combined experience of over 50 years to provide a history of public-life study as well as methods and tools necessary to recapture city life as an important planning dimension.
This type of systematic study began in earnest in the 1960s, when several researchers and journalists on differcontinents criticized urban planning for having forgotten life in the city. City life studies provide knowledge about human behavior in the built environmin an attempt to put it on an equal footing with knowledge about urban elements such as buildings and transport systems. Studies can be used as input in the decision-making process, as part of overall planning, or in designing individual projects such as streets, squares or parks. The original goal is still the goal today: to recapture city life as an important planning dimension. Anyone interested in improving city life will find inspiration, tools, and examples in this invaluable guide.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jan Gehl’s How to study public life is a short but well presented vademecum of his work’s message. If you have read other books or texts by Gehl, you’ll recognize its messages. Architects and urban planners, unfortunately, seem unable to learn the simple ways how to make buildings and cities more human-friendly. Time and again, the same mistakes occur and concrete wastelands are created. The Matthew effect ("the rich get richer and the poor get poorer") is alive in architecture and urban planning: Most of the cities that apply Jan Gehl’s lessons are already wealthy and highly ranked on the lists of livable cities. Hopefully, he will find American disciples to carry on the torch and make US cities more attractive. A great little book!