Rediscovering urban design through walkability : an assessment of the contribution of Jan Gehl

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Rediscovering urban design through walkability : an assessment of the contribution of Jan Gehl

Urban design is being rediscovered. For most of the past 50 years it has lacked the concrete theory necessary to guide praxis. As a field it has related only sporadically and selectively to experiential knowledge and was essentially still entrenched within formulistic Modernist approaches. This has...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Matan, Anne
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2011
Subjects:	urban design walkability Jan Gehl
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/664

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