Cities for People

"""...fascinating...Gehl keeps his latest effort engaging from start to finish.""--Publishers Weekly, starred review ""Fascinating guide on how to create cities that local residents fall in love with, rather than simply put up with.""--Shareable: Cities ""Jan Gehl's book constitutes part of a worldview; it embodies a fundamental re-orientation in the way that we regard and adopt knowledge about the behaviour of individuals and communities in the development of our cities.""--Urban Design ""Jan Gehl's new manifesto...Pages will be dog-eared, margins annotated... accessibly deployed framework of research and a logical, lucid framework for all the telling details and surprising data. The book organizes a set of observations that will strike some readers as obvious, others as radical, but practically all as convincing, revealing how deeply grounded Gehl's system is in common sense. This kind of synthesis is no small task, and Gehl performs it with aplomb.""--ArchNewsNow ""This book elaborates on many of Gehl's seminal ideas, examines some of the world's cities that have successfully improved over the last few decades, and states the challenges for the future. Many generations will lead happier lives and cities will be more competitive if their leaders heed his advice.""--Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia ""Jan Gehl continues to astonish us with his insight into what really makes cities work. He has a global reach in this book based on work he has done in Europe, Australia, and America with comparative data on how pedestrians use public spaces. The deep appeal is how quickly he has been able to assist some cities in turning their traffic-riddled streets into havens for people.""--Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Australia ""If Cities for People is widely read and widely applied, the world's urban life will be immeasurably better.""--New Urban News ""In his well-illustrated and accessible new book, Cities for People, Jan Gehl fills in the missing link in modern planning: how human beings actually function and respond to the built environment.""--Planning ""Jan Gehl's most recent book--Cities for People--brought with it a lot of excitement and expectations. With a track record like his, however, it comes as no surprise that Gehl's strong perspective, clear prose and rigorous research is not a disappointment. Continuing his quest to secure the importance of the human experience as a top priority when planning and designing cities, Cities for People is a succinct collection of his experience and lessons to-date. Ultimately, Cities for People is one of those books that everybody--no matter what level you are in the industry--is bound to learn from. Clear and accessible, it's a must-read for students and early practitioners of planning, architecture, and landscape design, as well as anybody interested creating humane pedestrian cities. If one hasn't read any of Gehl's previous books, this is also a great place to start.""--Re: place Magazine ""Jan Gehl is our greatest observer of urban quality and an indispensable philosopher of cities as solutions to the environmental and health crises that we face. With over half the world's population now in urban areas, the entire planet needs to learn the lessons he offers in Cities for People.""--Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation"