Jan Gehl, architect, professor, and consultant on urban design, has focused his career on improving the quality of urban life, by reorienting the design of the city towards the people in them. His books include “Life between Buildings” and “Cities for People”. Gehl Architects have carried out major city improvement projects in Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, London and New York. Jan Gehl has been awarded the UIA Patrick Abercrombie Prize for Urban Planning and Design, as well as the key to the City of Sydney. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Edinburgh, Toronto, Varna and Halifax and is honorary fellow of the Architectural Institutes of Denmark, the UK (RIBA), the USA, Canada, Scotland and Ireland, as well as the Planning Institutes of Australia and Ireland. |
