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[Tom Ponessa (tomp]

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Jan Gehl has spent 30 years in evaluative research on the psychology and
sociology of medium density housing and the success of the design-
throughouut the western world- including California and Canada. His work
focuses on collaborative/cooperative/cohousing approaches.

I attended a year long series of seminars with Gehl- it appears that his
research indicates that a lot of medium density  and the surrounding
community design concepts in North America are lacking in a variety of ways -
Gehl's resultant notions on how to do it better are contrary to what most
architects and planners do in North America when it comes to medium and high
density housing (including the surrounding neighborhood).

Here is one of his books, that has been translated into english-he wrote the
first version in 1971! (there are more recent versions):
"Life Between The Buildings ...... Using Public Space" published by Van
Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-23011-7 (pbk).

As well you can contact him for a list of other books and papers at the
School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in
Copenhagen, Denmark.

Harry (Harry_Pasternak [at] tvo.org)