How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale

The classic work on the evaluation of city form.

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. 

 Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual.

It is time to cement the bicycle firmly in the urban narrative in US and global cities.

Using Public Space

“perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning..."

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”

A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time.