"Cities must urge urban planners and architects to……" — Jan Gehl
"Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society."
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Jan Gehl
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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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A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,
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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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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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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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