About the Authors


New City Spaces - Jan Gehl & Lars Gemzøe

... This excellent new book is an illuminating account of the working methods used, showing the delicate analysis, identifying and mapping those elements of urban fabric that together constitute an energised whole.
The book offers a fascinating and instructive insight into these working methods, and highlights particular examples of successful urban design that best serve the everyday needs of city communities. The vision ranges from the exact number of front doors within a given stretch of thoroughfare contributing to a lively street environment right through to the broad sweep of monumental public spaces, identifying surface treatments and lighting systems that will humanise and dramatise the urban landscape.
From the introduction by Lord Richard Rogers of Riverside.

Jan Gehl

Jan Gehl, born 1936. Architect, Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
International teaching includes universities in Edinburgh, Vilnius, Oslo, Toronto, Calgary, Melbourne, Perth, Berkeley, San José and Guadalajara, and consultancy comprises cities in Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. Previous publications include New City Spaces, Copenhagen 2000 and Public Spaces Public Life, Copenhagen 1996, winner of the Edra/PLACES Research Award, Jan Gehl has been awarded the Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to town planning by the International Union of Architects as well as an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Lars Gemzøe

Lars Gemzøe, born 1945. Architect, Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at DIS, Denmark's International Study Program in Copenhagen. International teaching includes universities in New York, Montréal, Rouen, Hannover and Bogota, and he has lectured at conferences and schools of architecture in the USA, Canada, Japan, Columbia, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Spain, Yugoslavia, Lithuania and Scandinavia. Previous publications include Public Spaces Public Life, Copenhagen 1996, which won the Edra/PLACES Research Award in 1998.


The Danish Architectural Press, Arkitektens Forlag


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The project was made possible with the financial support of the following institutions and foundations:

Direktør E. Danielsen og hustrus Fond
Margot og Thorvald Dreyers Fond
RealDanmark Fonden
The Danish Ministry of Culture

© The Danish Architectural Press
Jan Gehl and Lars Gemzøe,
Copenhagen 2000
English translation: Karen Steenhard
Layout: Stine Sandahl and Marie-Eouise Teilmann
Editorial assistant: Zuhra Sasa
Repro: Bogtrykkeriet Skive, Denmark
Printing: Bogtrykkeriet Skive, Denmark


ISBN 87-7407-235-8

 

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