"First life, then spaces, then buildings - the……" — Jan Gehl
"First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works."
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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.
- Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.
- In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of…
- A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,
- An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.
- If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.
- Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.
- Something happens because something happens because something happens
- I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to…
- Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable…
- 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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