"Make it nice where you are, and put…" — Jan Gehl
"Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top."
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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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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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More Density Quotes
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one of 77 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the…
— George F. Kennan
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
— Aldo Leopold
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With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron…
— Fritz Zwicky
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail…
— H. Bentley Glass
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In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within…
— Victor J. Stenger
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We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
— Mathis Wackernagel
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I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together,…
— Maureen Howard
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The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be…
— Minoru Mori
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Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
— Unknown Author
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I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. Its…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave…
— Sally Field
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan…
— Rem Koolhaas
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