Jan Gehl’s Cities for People Reviewed: Two Copies for Giveaway
Danish architect, Jan Gehl s , latest book, Cities for People (Island Press, enthalpy tables 2010), explores the better designs of cities through designs for the people to live and work simultaneously. enthalpy tables In this follow-up to Life Between Buildings (1971), Gehl explores the shifting focus from the automobile to pedestrians and bicyclists in the past fifty years and how this shift affects urban design today. Using consultations and recommendations completed by Gehl himself, he illustrates many points in Cities for People via Copenhagen, enthalpy tables Melbourne, and New York City, among others.
The Lively enthalpy tables City refers to providing more than the most basic of needs or broadening opportunities for interactions with society. A city must join those who use public space with attractive, inviting public spaces; “Public space is the key to urban attraction.” The Lively City aspect focuses on soft edges of the city: where people meet buildings.
The Safe City outlines different methods to create sound city spaces, involving traffic safety and crime prevention techniques. Gehl mentions a focus on cars leads to decreased safety; pedestrians must be the design focus. Also, an “open city” allows for people of all different socioeconomic background to intermix. Safety is also increased with soft-edge boundaries between private, semi-private, and public spaces.
The Sustainable City highlights the high priority on pedestrians + bicyclists and their respective infrastructure, allowing fewer resources used and a lessen impact on the environment. The focus on pedestrians + bicyclists enthalpy tables also allows for denser cities; their infrastructure is less massive. Give the city to the pedestrians + bicyclists versus the automobile enthalpy tables to help transition society from the automobile. Using transit-oriented development also helps connect people, bicyclists, and their “collective traffic network.” Lively cities and social sustainability means greater options, more than the most basic needs, for a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds.
The Healthy City focuses on combining health policy with city planning. To quote Gehl: The price of the loss of exercise as part of a daily pattern of activity is high: a decrease in quality of life, a dramatic enthalpy tables rise in health costs and a shorter lifespan. Creating greater options for walking within enthalpy tables the planning culture will result in a change in society’s acceptability of walking, similar to transforming away from the automobile.
Understanding the interconnectedness of these four goals is vital for city planning. Focusing on these goals at eye level within a city will lead to a better environment for pedestrians, bicyclists, and the city as a whole.
Cities for People has a stellar layout. The book is full of pages upon pages of color photos from a plethora of cities around the globe. As most designers tend to understand information in the form of graphics, tables, and visual sources in general, Cities for People really hits a positive nerve.
Perhaps the selling point of Cities for People is the Toolbox. Though the entire enthalpy tables book can be seen as a toolkit for safe, walkable, interactive cities, this final toolbox is the most simple and straightforward. Located as Chapter Seven towards the end of the book, the toolbox provides an overview (with graphics) of the basic planning principles concerning the layout of a city. These range from the flow of traffic enthalpy tables (pedestrian, automobile, bicycle, etc,) to twelve, quality criteria for an excellent city space at eye level. The highlight of the Toolbox are the last few pages titled Reordering priorities, please. These vital pages use real life examples, again, to highlight putting pedestrians first with simple yes and no photos. This part of the Toolbox depicts the automobile first mindset of the past fifty years, and the solutions to change enthalpy tables back to pedestrian-focused cities. If you are one for graphics to see the problem (and solution for that matter,) clearly, the Toolbox will speak to you as well.
Cities for People is available online via Amazon , Island Press , and Google Books , (among others). For more information on world-renown architect Jan Gehl and his other publications, visit Gehl s website .
Katie enthalpy tables Poppel comes to The Grid as a student constantly on the go. Set to graduate enthalpy tables from the University of Cincinnati in 2014, she is studying for a bachelor of urban planning with focuses in urban design and sustainability. Her program has allowed her to work for the City of Chicago and the Congress for New Urbanism this past year, as well as study abroad at the University enthalpy tables of Amsterdam, College of Social Sciences. In her free time, you can find her exploring cities, playing soccer, enthalpy tables or skiing. She has a serious case of wanderlust and enjoys the rush of cities over the countryside. Katie writes from Colorado, as she interns for the small town of Buena V
Danish architect, Jan Gehl s , latest book, Cities for People (Island Press, enthalpy tables 2010), explores the better designs of cities through designs for the people to live and work simultaneously. enthalpy tables In this follow-up to Life Between Buildings (1971), Gehl explores the shifting focus from the automobile to pedestrians and bicyclists in the past fifty years and how this shift affects urban design today. Using consultations and recommendations completed by Gehl himself, he illustrates many points in Cities for People via Copenhagen, enthalpy tables Melbourne, and New York City, among others.
The Lively enthalpy tables City refers to providing more than the most basic of needs or broadening opportunities for interactions with society. A city must join those who use public space with attractive, inviting public spaces; “Public space is the key to urban attraction.” The Lively City aspect focuses on soft edges of the city: where people meet buildings.
The Safe City outlines different methods to create sound city spaces, involving traffic safety and crime prevention techniques. Gehl mentions a focus on cars leads to decreased safety; pedestrians must be the design focus. Also, an “open city” allows for people of all different socioeconomic background to intermix. Safety is also increased with soft-edge boundaries between private, semi-private, and public spaces.
The Sustainable City highlights the high priority on pedestrians + bicyclists and their respective infrastructure, allowing fewer resources used and a lessen impact on the environment. The focus on pedestrians + bicyclists enthalpy tables also allows for denser cities; their infrastructure is less massive. Give the city to the pedestrians + bicyclists versus the automobile enthalpy tables to help transition society from the automobile. Using transit-oriented development also helps connect people, bicyclists, and their “collective traffic network.” Lively cities and social sustainability means greater options, more than the most basic needs, for a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds.
The Healthy City focuses on combining health policy with city planning. To quote Gehl: The price of the loss of exercise as part of a daily pattern of activity is high: a decrease in quality of life, a dramatic enthalpy tables rise in health costs and a shorter lifespan. Creating greater options for walking within enthalpy tables the planning culture will result in a change in society’s acceptability of walking, similar to transforming away from the automobile.
Understanding the interconnectedness of these four goals is vital for city planning. Focusing on these goals at eye level within a city will lead to a better environment for pedestrians, bicyclists, and the city as a whole.
Cities for People has a stellar layout. The book is full of pages upon pages of color photos from a plethora of cities around the globe. As most designers tend to understand information in the form of graphics, tables, and visual sources in general, Cities for People really hits a positive nerve.
Perhaps the selling point of Cities for People is the Toolbox. Though the entire enthalpy tables book can be seen as a toolkit for safe, walkable, interactive cities, this final toolbox is the most simple and straightforward. Located as Chapter Seven towards the end of the book, the toolbox provides an overview (with graphics) of the basic planning principles concerning the layout of a city. These range from the flow of traffic enthalpy tables (pedestrian, automobile, bicycle, etc,) to twelve, quality criteria for an excellent city space at eye level. The highlight of the Toolbox are the last few pages titled Reordering priorities, please. These vital pages use real life examples, again, to highlight putting pedestrians first with simple yes and no photos. This part of the Toolbox depicts the automobile first mindset of the past fifty years, and the solutions to change enthalpy tables back to pedestrian-focused cities. If you are one for graphics to see the problem (and solution for that matter,) clearly, the Toolbox will speak to you as well.
Cities for People is available online via Amazon , Island Press , and Google Books , (among others). For more information on world-renown architect Jan Gehl and his other publications, visit Gehl s website .
Katie enthalpy tables Poppel comes to The Grid as a student constantly on the go. Set to graduate enthalpy tables from the University of Cincinnati in 2014, she is studying for a bachelor of urban planning with focuses in urban design and sustainability. Her program has allowed her to work for the City of Chicago and the Congress for New Urbanism this past year, as well as study abroad at the University enthalpy tables of Amsterdam, College of Social Sciences. In her free time, you can find her exploring cities, playing soccer, enthalpy tables or skiing. She has a serious case of wanderlust and enjoys the rush of cities over the countryside. Katie writes from Colorado, as she interns for the small town of Buena V
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