{"id":11171,"date":"2014-12-23T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/?p=11171"},"modified":"2014-12-23T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:58:52","slug":"public-space-two-from-our-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/2014\/public-space-two-from-our-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Public space: Two from our library"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n At ERA we often gather on a Wednesday morning or a Friday afternoon to share progress on recent projects, issues affecting our cities, or to look at both historical and contemporary research in architecture, landscape, planning, design, technique, process, theory, etc. Recently these titles came up for discussion: <\/p>\n How to Study Public Life <\/a><\/p>\n Gehl and Svarre work at the Danish firm Gehl Architects \/ Urban Quality consultants. Beginning in 1960s, Gehl was looking for a way to understand cities at the human scale, by observing people\u2019s activities empirically rather than making assumptions about \u201cgood design.\u201d This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the interaction of people and urban space using a mix of observation, documentation, and common sense.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Methods used include counting, timing, mapping, photographing, walking, journaling, observing traces and other material evidence…and the list goes on. It\u2019s an excellent introduction to the contemporary practice of planning and urban design, and even includes a gloss of the last century or so history of texts about the study of public life and urban analysis.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>by Jan Gehl & Birgitte Svarre, Island Press, 2013<\/p>\n