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Cities for People: A Q&A With Architect Jan Gehl

While visiting New York this week for the American publication of his latest book "Cities for People"--a kind of manual for making walkable cities--Jan Gehl invited me to sit with him in Bryant Park to observe the sidewalk ballet and discuss what he calls “the needs of the urban habitat of homo sapiens.”READ»

2009 Festival of Architecture and Forum

At last year's forum, all 300 attendees donned lobster bibs and "got cacophonous" during the send-off social event, recalls organizer Denise MacDonald. Sadly, she can't guarantee repeat cacophony this year. But she does ...READ»