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JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR. LITT.
FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS
URBAN QUALITY CONSULTANTS, COPENHAGEN
LIVEABLE CITIES –for the 21st Century
PEOPLE ORIENTED CITY PLANNING AS STRATEGY
”Life Between
Buildings”
1st edition 1971
Published in many
versions
21 languages
”New City
Spaces” - 2001
”Public Spaces
Public Life
- 1996
”New City Life” -
2006
4decades
of
research
Vietnam, 2008Bangladesh, 2008 Iran, 2010
Public Space as Meeting Place
Public Space as Market Place
Public Space as Connection Space
The traditional city......forever
The invaded city....from 1950s
All Cities have Traffic
Departments and perfect
statistics concerning traffic
and parking
*
The cars are very visible and
everpresent in the planning
proces
Do you know of any Citydepartment for
pedestrians and public life?
Hardly any City have statistics and data
concerning the people who use the city
*
The people in the City tends to be very
invisible and poorly represented in the
planning proces
The Carinvasion gets worser every day,
until someone puts their foot down and
decides to do something about it.
Bogota, Colombia - 6 mio. Inh.
The reconquered city...from 1980s
Reconquered
Cities:
A change of
Paradigme
WANTED:
- Lively City
- Attractive City
- Safe City
- Sustainable City
- Healthy City
Lively City
Attractive City
People Scale, Less Stress, Less Noise, Less Polution
+ a City dominated by Attraction Nr. 1: PEOPLE
Safe city
Sustainable City
”Houston -the City with the
fattest people of the World”
Healthy City
Willingnes to place
constraints to the vehicular
traffic
Reconqured Cities
Keywords
London – Congestion Charge 2003
Careful planning for
Walking and Public Life
Reconqured Cities
Keywords:
Copenhagen
From traffic place to people place
Strøget (main street)
pedestrianized 1962
Public Space-Public Life Surveys: Copenhagen 1968, 1985, 1995, 2005
Many more People are walking in the city
4 times more people
spend time in the city
In only 40 years the good season has been
extended from 2 to 10 months
Copenhagen Street: 2
Sidewalks, 2 proper bicycle
lanes, street trees, 2 lanes
for 2 way traffic, and a
substan- tial median to
facilitate crossing the
street
”We do not have to think
and act as 1960s traffic
engineers for ever -times
are changing and traffic
engineers are by now much
smarter”
Copenhagen: New Public Life Policy 2009:
”WORLDS FINEST CITY FOR PEOPLE”
Among the goals:”Everyone to walk 20% more by 2015!!!”
-on a citywide network of bicycle lanes
Bicycling in Copenhagen
Bicycles are taken
straight through the
street crossings and the
lanes are marked with
blue
Bicycle signals turns green
six seconds before the car
signals
A bicycle culture have step by step
been developed
Everybody bike
Cello- and bass players cycle
Oct 2011: New Danish Red - Gren Government arriving on
bicycles at the Palace to be commissioned by the Queen.
No Limousines no more?
Going to work in the City of Copenhagen
37% use bicycle
27% drive car
33% use public transit
5% walk
70% continue to bike in the winter
Official City Poster
September 2007
Copenhagen
The No 1 Bicycle
City in the World
Goals for 2015:
* 50% of all comuting
on bicycles
* Bicycle Accidents to
be halved”
Melbourne, - 3 mio. Inh.
The Age c.
1980
Places for People
1994
Places for People
2004
www.gehlarchitects.dk
Pedestrian traffic weekdays daytime: +40%
Pedestrian traffic evening: +100 %
Stationary activities +200-300%
MELBOURNE City Center 1994-2004
Retail
Residential
Office Vacancies
Employment
Bars and Pubs
Copenhagen Melbourne oct 07
A CITY GOOD AT PARTIES, OLYMPICS and SUMMITS….
….. BUT NOT SO GLORIOUS FOR THE EVERYDAY LIFE
Main Street in Sydney to be transformed
to Pedestrians, Bicycles and Light Rail
Present situation George St. After conversion
Vancouver , B.C. ,
Order of priority: Walking, Bicycling, Transit
and Deliveries. The Auto is last.
.
Washington DC. 2010: Cycling
down (in the middle of)
Pensylvania Ave
GREATER NEW YORKA GREENER,
9th Ave. Apr.08
9th Ave. Sep.08
Phot:DOT/NYC
Phot:DOT/NYC
Broadway Boulevard 23
May 2009
“When you can make it
there you can make it
anywhere,
New York, New York !!”
WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY
LIFE & ACTIVITY IS THE FINEST
ATTRACTION OF ALL
In the home the Children play were
the activity is
Outdoors children also prefer to play where other activities go on
Pedestrian routes
Access roads
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weekday
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weekdaysunday sunday
Children 0-6 Children 7-14
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Day
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Life: an everlasting source of learning
“Man is man’s greatest joy” (Old Icelandic saying)
Always a two-way contact: To watch and be watched
Life between buildings is so
important, it is never forgotten in architectual
drawings
We are talking about
life itself!
-everything worth
talking about happens
when you are on your
feet -that`s what we
were made for!
There is much more to walking -than walking!
A mode of transport - but with a potential for much more
-and the ”much more” is by far the more interesting part!
You can walk -and walk - and walk....
Slide 63
-but you could just as well ”walk`n-talk”
- or ”walk`n-watch” (and be watched!)
Slide 63
- or ”walk`n-wink”
-or you can ”stop`n watch”
If you can find a vacant bollard ! (Campo in Siena, Italy)
-or you can ”stop`n-talk”
-or you can ”walk`n-waltz`”
-or you can ”stop`n - watch`n - learn”
-and whenever you feel like
you can adress your fellow
citiziens
Transport dimension
Getting from A to B - simple, cheap, low noise
Social dimensionThe City as meetingplace
People watching
- the number one attraction in any city
People watching - the number 1,2,3...10
attraction in any city
Sustainability dimension
A good Public Realm is a crucial factor
for good Public Transportation
Health dimension
Democratic dimension
”Open Society” dimension
Danse his sort her
A heartfelt
welcome to a local
shopping center
(Australia)
Friendly, safe city dimension
The Economic dimension
AABOULEVARDEN - BEFORE THE REOPENING OF THE RIVER
AABOULEVARDEN - AFTER THE REOPENING OF THE RIVER
Sheer fun dimension ”a general human dimension”
.....Oh, what a wonderfull World!