"Cultures and climates differ all over the world,……" — Jan Gehl
"Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it."
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12 Quotes by Jan Gehl
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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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Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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