"A good city is like a good party……" — Jan Gehl
"A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,"
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12 Quotes by Jan Gehl
Jan Gehl has 12 quotes on this site.
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Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.
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Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.
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First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.
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In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of…
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An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.
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If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.
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Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.
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Something happens because something happens because something happens
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I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to…
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Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable…
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Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give…
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
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