Cohousing-L Mailing List: Jan Gehl

[Graham Meltzer (g.meltzer]

Steve Nadel asks "Who is this Jan Gehl?"

He's a planner/researcher from Copenhagen who has spent considerable time in
Australia and written a great deal of material on urban form, density, the
spaces between buildings, human social interaction in the public realm etc.
He's Danish, and expresses what I beleive to be a well developed, Danish,
civilised humanism.

Cohousers may be interested in his analyses of Danish public housing schemes
which incorporate many of the features of cohousing. It offers insight into
the origins and ongoing development of cohousing principles.

I don't think it's at all usefull to rate his work against Alexander's. They
both have a great deal to offer.

Gehl's best known work is "Life Between Buildings: using public space", NY,
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.

Cheers
Graham Meltzer 

School of Architecture, Interior and Industrial Design
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Tel:(07)864 2535(w)  (07)870 2090(h)  Fax: (07)864 1528

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