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Jan Gehl comes to Center for Architecture in AIANY, NYC City Planning Chair Burden and Transportation Commissioner Sadik-Khan welcome the renowned Danish architect

DATE: Wednesday, September 15, 2010

TIME: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets Manhattan Press RSVP: [email protected], 212-358-6126

EVENT: Cities for People: A talk with Jan Gehl Center for Architecture hosts a book talk with urban planner and architect Jan Gehl. The author will be introduced by American Institute of Architects New York Chapter leadership, NYC Department of City Planning Chair Amanda Burden, FAICP, Hon. AIA, and NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. The event coincides with the closing of Our Cities Ourselves, an exhibition organized by the Center for Architecture and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy.

DETAILS: For more than forty years, Jan Gehl, renowned urban planner and Danish architect, has helped transform urban environments from to New York and cities around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In Cities for People, which is extensively illustrated with over 700 images, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes for people.

Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects—Urban Quality Consultants. He is the author of Life Between Buildings and Public Spaces, Public Life. He has received numerous awards for his work and is widely credited with creating and renewing urban spaces in cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, , and many others.