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    Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
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    Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space

    By Jan Gehl

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    “. . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening...”
    —Jane Jacobs

    “This book will have a lasting infl uence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, fi nd a comfortable place to sit in a public park or plaza, begin reading, look around. You will be surprised at how you will start to see (and design) the world differently.”
    —Landscape Architecture
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateSep 26, 2012
    ISBN9781610910231
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