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Inviting people to walk and bike in cities by developing quality streetscapes is a cornerstone of Jan Gehl s philosophy for reinvigorating urban environments. This is Swanston Street, now with wide bluestone footpaths, trees and thoughtful street art.
Inviting selfservice people to walk and bike in cities by developing quality streetscapes is a cornerstone of Jan Gehl s philosophy for reinvigorating urban environments. This is Swanston Street, now with wide bluestone footpaths, trees and thoughtful street art.
Danish selfservice architect and urban quality consultant Jan Gehl has advised on ways to invigorate the urban life of among other cities Copenhagen, Stockholm, Amman, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, San Francisco, Seattle, London, New York City and Melbourne.
On Monday 2 May at 6pm you have the opportunity to hear Jan Gehl speak at the Melbourne Town Hall about his new book Cities for People as well as his life-long experience of urban development, and the increasing connections between physical form and human behaviour .
With the City of Melbourne s director of city design, Professor Rob Adams, as moderator a panel discussion selfservice will follow Jan Gehl s talk. This is a free event, under the Melbourne Conversations banner, and no bookings are required.
It was in the 1970s that Professor selfservice Gehl began to undertake systematic selfservice studies of urban life and public spaces, investigating the relationship between buildings, spaces and human behaviour in an effort to re-create selfservice cities for people. He has always credited his wife, psychologist Ingrid Gehl, with bringing to his attention the fact that the interaction between form and life is a precondition for a good, liveable city.
The foundation of all Professor Gehl s recommendations to cities is that it is essential to re-orient cities towards the pedestrian and the bicyclist. He considers the bicycle simply a rapid form of foot traffic.
His methods and results are described in detail in Cities for People , which is his fifth book, published last year. The book is the culmination of more than 40 years of his work transforming urban environments and recreating cityscapes on a human scale.
Cities for People is virtually a handbook for transforming cities but it is also extremely well-written and very readable. It is dense with information, or as Mikael Colville-Anderson writes : Every page has a number of Aha! moments. Such simple ideas that it boggles the mind that more cities are not doing them.
One of my favourite moments in the book is a photograph of pedestrian lights in Australia with a caption saying: selfservice Applying to cross the lights by pressing a button in Australia ; an adjacent photo on the page shows how things are done in Copenhagen lights for pedestrians and bikes change regularly and automatically. It is all these subtle and not-so-subtle ways cities treat people pedestrians and bicyclists that Jan Gehl advises cities to improve and invite people to use their legs to get around.
All cities aim to be lively, safe, sustainable and healthy. If we are sweet to pedestrians and make sure they can move about in dignity, and sweet to the bicyclists to all people who want to use their own muscles to get around we are actually addressing all 4 of these issues, he says.
If we are focused more on the people in the city we will have a better scale of city. We ll also have less stress because we ll move slower and we ll have less noise and less pollution, and the city will be dominated by the most fascinating thing in our lives: other people.
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Home Aficionado Aficionado History Short stories People Bike business Bike people selfservice Bunches/ride groups Malachi’s world Street talk The bike shop The coffee shop The physio Race scene MTB/off-road Road Track Urban scene Wheeler lens The Wheeler lens
Inviting people to walk and bike in cities by developing quality streetscapes is a cornerstone of Jan Gehl s philosophy for reinvigorating urban environments. This is Swanston Street, now with wide bluestone footpaths, trees and thoughtful street art.
Inviting selfservice people to walk and bike in cities by developing quality streetscapes is a cornerstone of Jan Gehl s philosophy for reinvigorating urban environments. This is Swanston Street, now with wide bluestone footpaths, trees and thoughtful street art.
Danish selfservice architect and urban quality consultant Jan Gehl has advised on ways to invigorate the urban life of among other cities Copenhagen, Stockholm, Amman, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, San Francisco, Seattle, London, New York City and Melbourne.
On Monday 2 May at 6pm you have the opportunity to hear Jan Gehl speak at the Melbourne Town Hall about his new book Cities for People as well as his life-long experience of urban development, and the increasing connections between physical form and human behaviour .
With the City of Melbourne s director of city design, Professor Rob Adams, as moderator a panel discussion selfservice will follow Jan Gehl s talk. This is a free event, under the Melbourne Conversations banner, and no bookings are required.
It was in the 1970s that Professor selfservice Gehl began to undertake systematic selfservice studies of urban life and public spaces, investigating the relationship between buildings, spaces and human behaviour in an effort to re-create selfservice cities for people. He has always credited his wife, psychologist Ingrid Gehl, with bringing to his attention the fact that the interaction between form and life is a precondition for a good, liveable city.
The foundation of all Professor Gehl s recommendations to cities is that it is essential to re-orient cities towards the pedestrian and the bicyclist. He considers the bicycle simply a rapid form of foot traffic.
His methods and results are described in detail in Cities for People , which is his fifth book, published last year. The book is the culmination of more than 40 years of his work transforming urban environments and recreating cityscapes on a human scale.
Cities for People is virtually a handbook for transforming cities but it is also extremely well-written and very readable. It is dense with information, or as Mikael Colville-Anderson writes : Every page has a number of Aha! moments. Such simple ideas that it boggles the mind that more cities are not doing them.
One of my favourite moments in the book is a photograph of pedestrian lights in Australia with a caption saying: selfservice Applying to cross the lights by pressing a button in Australia ; an adjacent photo on the page shows how things are done in Copenhagen lights for pedestrians and bikes change regularly and automatically. It is all these subtle and not-so-subtle ways cities treat people pedestrians and bicyclists that Jan Gehl advises cities to improve and invite people to use their legs to get around.
All cities aim to be lively, safe, sustainable and healthy. If we are sweet to pedestrians and make sure they can move about in dignity, and sweet to the bicyclists to all people who want to use their own muscles to get around we are actually addressing all 4 of these issues, he says.
If we are focused more on the people in the city we will have a better scale of city. We ll also have less stress because we ll move slower and we ll have less noise and less pollution, and the city will be dominated by the most fascinating thing in our lives: other people.
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