"I find it striking that the quality of……" — Jan Gehl
"I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China…you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment."
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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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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
— Teresa of Avila
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
— Lord Acton
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a…
— Amy Adams
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