We have Bengali, we have Hebrew, we have Turkish, and we have hopefully also Slovenian. It is a great joy for me to see that in just ten years, this book has been distributed all over the world, and printed in 35 different languages. The first one was a call to attention, saying something is wrong the second was my attempt to sum up what we have learned in these 40 years of research and projects around the world. What is the major difference between the two books? Island Press: Next year marks 50 years since the publication of Life Between Buildings this year is the 10th anniversary of Cities for People. Here, Gehl talks with staff of his publisher, Island Press, about what has changed (or not) in his 60-year career as an architect, and why Amazon is scarier than the coronavirus. He is widely credited with creating and renewing urban public spaces in cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, London, and many others. He is the author of Life Between Buildings (1971) and Cities for People (2010), among other books. Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects-Urban Quality Consultants.
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