Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space by Jan Gehl (English) Paperback Book

Description: Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl Published in 1971, this book was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that period. It appeals to you with a basic message: Take good care of the life between your buildings. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "This book will have a lasting influence 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, find 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 Back Cover Is psychology really a science? If it is not a science as physics or chemistry is, can it be a science of another kind? Does the discipline play by valid scientific rules? Can we prove this? These questions have been debated for over a century, and clear-cut answers have yet to find consensus. Proposing provocative new directions in critical thinking, Clinical Psychology and the Philosophy of Science asks readers to revisit what they know--and especially how they came to know it. Offering a concise guide to the central concepts philosophy uses to make sense of science, this readable treatise persuades philosophers of science to look critically at the foundational problems of psychology, and clinicians to re-examine the theories and assumptions that fuel their approaches to their work. The author makes a robust case for multiple viewpoints as not only a necessity, but also a source of strength befitting living schools of thought. The book argues that the ongoing tensions between psychology and philosophy benefit both sides as it: Author Biography Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants. He is the author of Life Between Buildings and Public Spaces, Public Life. 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. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Table of Contents Foreword Chapter 1. Life Between Buildings -Three Types of Outdoor Activities-Outdoor Activities and Quality of Outdoor Space-Outdoor Activities and Architectural Trends -Life Between Buildingsin Current Social Situations Chapter 2. Prerequisites for Planning -Processes and Projects -Senses, Communication, and Dimensions -Life Between BuildingsA Process Chapter 3. To Assemble or Disperse -To Integrate or Segregate -To Invite or Repel -To Open Up or Close In Chapter 4. Spaces for Walking, Places for Staying-Spaces for WalkingPlaces for Staying-Walking-Standing-Seeing, Hearing, and Talking-A Pleasant Place in Every Respect-Soft Edges BibliographyIllustration CreditsIndex Review "The partners of pedestrian life he has observed and the recommendations he has made are highly applicable to American cities...A splendid piece of work." -- "City- Rediscovering the Center""This book should mark a milestone for studies of the way people attribute meaning to and use public spaces in many countries. Owning it is a must for environmental design teachers and practitioners." -- "Plan Canada""This book will have a lasting influence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the large public life of cities, Life Between Buildings can move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, find 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 Magazine""...this is a book that is a great inspiration to me in my work, and I look upon it as one of the classics for all professional or amateur students of architecture and community building, regardless of their age and background, or how short or long their experience may be." --Ralph Erskine "from the foreword to Life Between Buildings""Thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening" --Jane Jacobs Long Description The first Danish language version of this book, published in 1971, was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that period. The book carried an appeal to show concern for the people who were to move about between buildings, and it urged an understanding of the subtle, almost indefinable - but definite - qualities, which have always related to the interaction of people in public spaces, and it pointed to the life between buildings as a dimension of architecture that needs to be carefully treated. Now 40 years later, many architectural trends and ideologies have passed by over the years. These intervening years have also shown that the liveliness and liveability of cities and residential areas continues to be a important issue. The intensity in which fine public spaces are used at this point in time, as well as the greatly increased general interest in the quality of cities and their public spaces emphasises this point. The character of life between buildings changes with changes in any given social context, but the essential principles and quality criteria to be employed when working with life between buildings has proven to be remarkably constant. Though this work over the years has been updated and revised several times, this version bears little resemblance with the very early versions, however there was no reason to change the basic message: Take good care of the life between your buildings. Review Text "This book should mark a milestone for studies of the way people attribute meaning to and use public spaces in many countries. Owning it is a must for environmental design teachers and practitioners." Review Quote "...this is a book that is a great inspiration to me in my work, and I look upon it as one of the classics for all professional or amateur students of architecture and community building, regardless of their age and background, or how short or long their experience may be." Details ISBN1597268275 Publisher Island Press ISBN-10 1597268275 ISBN-13 9781597268271 Format Paperback Imprint Island Press Subtitle Using Public Space Place of Publication Washington Country of Publication United States DEWEY 711.4 Year 2011 Media Book Language English Edition 6th Short Title LIFE BETWEEN BUILDINGS 6/E Pages 216 Author Jan Gehl NZ Release Date 2011-01-17 US Release Date 2011-01-17 Publication Date 2011-01-17 UK Release Date 2011-01-17 Illustrations b&w photos Edition Description 6th Sixth Edition, Sixth Edition, Sixth ed. Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2011-01-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:129746691;

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