How To Study Public Life

• Main Authors: Gehl, Jan. (Author), Svarre, Birgitte. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Environment.; Buildings.; Design.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Environment, general.; Design, general.; Building Types and Functions.; Urban Ecology.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vi...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by George Ferguson
• Preface
• 1. Public Space, Public Life: An Interaction
• 2. Who, What, Where?
• 3. Counting, Mapping, Tracking and Other Tools
• 4. Public Life Studies from a Historical Perspective
• 5. How They Did It: Research Notes
• 6. Public Life Studies in Practice
• 7. Public Life Studies and Urban Policy
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Illustration and Photo Credits.