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Life Between Buildings:

Using Public Space

ISBN-13: 9781597268271
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
By Jan Gehl
Price: AUD $95.99
Stock: 23 in stock
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Local release date: 16/03/2011
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 153.00mm) 207 pages Weight: 340g
Categories: Landscape art & architecture [AMV]

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Google Preview: 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.; 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 Buildings'in Current Social Situations

Chapter 2. Prerequisites for Planning
-Processes and Projects
-Senses, Communication, and Dimensions
-Life Between Buildings'A 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 Walking'Places for Staying
-Walking
-Standing
-Seeing, Hearing, and Talking
-A Pleasant Place in Every Respect
-Soft Edges

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Index; "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."; Google Preview content