New City Life

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New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society's essential city life to the elective city life of a leisure and consumer society. Where city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. For that very reason this is also the story of a transition from a time when the quality of city space did not play much of a role in its use to a new situation, in which quality is a crucial parameter.

Contemporary experience shows that when quality city space is provided it attracts an extensive and multifaceted city life with many new features that reflect the changes in society. Within only a few decades city life in the public arena has changed character and purpose, and the demands on quality city space have grown accordingly. Where quality has followed the changes and good comfortable and attractive city space is offered, extensive city life follows willingly.

But what is the character and purpose of life in the public realm in the 21st century? What significance and functions does life in the public arena have in our society today? What types of city space are found in cities and how do they work? Careful city space planning is in some ways an entirely new field emerging in response to changes in society. How are these challenges to be met. This book discusses and attempts to answer these questions and many more.

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About the Author

Jan Gehl

Jan Gehl is an architect and professor of urban design at the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has been awarded the Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to town planning by the International Union of Architects as well as an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Lars Gemzoe

Lars Gemzøe is an architect and senior lecturer in urban design at the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at DIS, Denmark’s International Study Program in Copenhagen.

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