Book, Cities for people[LS]

Jan Gehl is our greatest observer of urban quality and an indispensable philosopher of cities as solutions to the environmental and health crises we face. With more than half of the world's population living in urban areas today, the entire planet needs to learn the lessons he offers us in Cities for People. - Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation. This book analyzes many of Gehl's seminal ideas, examines some of the world's cities that have developed successfully in recent decades, and sets out the challenges for the future. Many generations will have better lives, and cities will be more competitive, if their leaders heed his warning. - Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, and chairman of the Board of the New York Institute for Transportation Policy and Development. Jan Gehl continues to surprise us with his understanding of what really makes cities tick. This book, based on work he did in Europe, Australia and the Americas, has a global reach, with comparative data on how pedestrians use public spaces, whose greatest appeal is the speed with which it has been able to help some cities transform their streets of intricate traffic into paradises for people. - Peter Newman, professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Australia, and co-author of Resilient Cities.Gehl addresses, in an in-depth and objective way, issues that are fundamental to the quality of life in the city and that are reflected in the scale of spaces, in solutions for mobility, in the dynamics that favor the vitality, sustainability and security of urban areas, in the valorization of public spaces, in the possibilities of individual and collective expression, in the beauty of what can be perceived at the level of the observer. - Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba and former governor of the State of Paraná.