Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants. He is the author of Life Between Buildings and Cities for People. He has received numerous awards for his work and is widely credited with creating and renewing urban spaces in cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, London, and many others. Birgitte Bundesen Svarre holds an MA in modern culture from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD from the School of Architecture in Copenhagen. She is part of Gehl Institute, the division at Gehl Architects that works with research and communication of knowledge at workshops for city planners, politicians and others with interest in life in the cities - as well as suburbs, a topic she has specialised in. She is a guest lecturer at various universities.
"...it serves also as a knowledge map for those interested in
understanding the roots of the renaissance of public spaces as a
field of attention in urban planning, looking back at authors that
influenced the works not only of Jan Gehl, but also of all those
addressing a new understanding of the importance of public life in
our cities nowadays."
-- "Ciudades a Escala Humana"
"fills a gap in the literature...Gehl is an unassuming but
essential guide to this criminally underutilized method of
analysis."
-- "Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2014"
"Applying the principles of public life studies at the City of
Melbourne has proven to be an invaluable tool for making our city
more livable. How to Study Public Life is an essential
tool-oriented book for all those striving to create better cities
for people."
--Rob Adams, Director of City Design, City of Melbourne
"Danish architect Jan Gehl and coauthor Birgitte Svarre provide a
nicely illustrated overview of the the field they call 'public-life
studies' in How to Study Public Life."
-- "Planning"
"For decades, the public space, public life studies developed by
Jan Gehl and his team have been a great inspiration for
professionals, academics and city planners in all parts of the
world. Now their secret tools are available to everyone in How to
Study Public Life. It is just a matter now of getting out there and
putting them to use."
--Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University,
Australia
"Gehl and Svarre's How to Study Public Life is a refreshing manual
for how to engage design professionals and the general public to
observe, analyze, and assess the nature of their city."
-- "Oculus"
"In sharing how public life-public space interactions can be
systematically approached and taught, I don't hesitate to say that
How to Study Public Life is must-read for anybody and everybody
entrenched in urban development, design and planning--from students
and practitioners to municipal officials and policy makers."--
"Spacing"
"Thanks to Gehl and Svarre, urban designers have a helpful
reference for getting started with the process of getting outside
into public spaces to look and learn"
-- "A Daily Dose of Architecture"
"This important book is published at a time when the dynamics of
urbanization dictate a better integration of urban activities,
which Gehl has long shown how to achieve."
--Peter Bosselmann, Professor of Urban Design, University of
California, Berkeley
"This is an excellent primer on how to 'recapture public life' as
an important dimension in the design of vibrant,
pedestrian-friendly city spaces. Gehl and Svarre... offer
fine-grained guidance on the range of behaviors to observe, tools
to employ for observing and documenting, and the types of
life-enhancing design solutions generated from interpretation of
collected data... This is an important book for architecture and
design programs at all levels."
-- "Choice"
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