This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places. Imagining and designing urban environments where all people thrive is an extraordinary t

A look at informal gathering places--coffe shops, community centers, beauty parlors, general stores, bars and others. The author considers their importance to o

Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways, or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers? Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops, or shady refuges and

Making Healthy Places surveys the many intersections between health and the built environment, from the scale of buildings to the scale of metro areas, and acro

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or coul