Cities for People
Jan Gehl has just published Cities for People (Island Press, 2010), summarizing his work over 50 years. Jan says “…city life and regard for people in city space must have a key role in the planning of cities and built up areas… caring for people in the city is an important key for achieving more lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities, all goals of crucial importance in the 21st century.” This fully illustrated publication is a textbook for urban designers, explaining how we experience the city, and how to design a hospitable urban experience.
Also in UDFQ 93: March 2011:
- Urban design and ‘extreme climate events’
- Dispatch from the Front
- Urban design – with the head or the heart?
- Get ready for Australia Award for Urban Design 2011
- Urban design and natural disasters
- Urban Living beyond the Metroplex
- Australian Urban Design Initiative (AUDI) update
- Our Cities: national urban policy in progress
- Can New Urbanism foster a sense of community? It is still a claim!
- Excluding children in cities
- Need for more than clichéd hopes
- Strengthening Victoria’s liveability
- Reviving Melbourne’s historic Northbank
- Conferences, etc