LIVEABLE CITIES –for the 21st Century
PEOPLE ORIENTED CITY PLANNING AS STRATEGY
JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR. LITT.
FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS
URBAN QUALITY CONSULTANTS, COPENHAGEN
Combined Age 136 years
Home
Dinner
Celebrating a 45th Wedding Anniversary
1960 CHANGE OF PARADIGME 2
From 1955….
Carinvasion
Perth, West Australia
Elsinore, Denmark
1962 Main Street Copenhagen Pedestrianized
Public Space-Public Life Surweys: Copenhagen 1968, 1985, 1995 (+2005)
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”
Priority for pedestrians and bicyclists
Sidewalks and bicycle tracks across
side streets
Copenhagen: New Public Life Policy 2009:
”WORLDS FINEST CITY FOR PEOPLE”
Among the goals:”Everyone to walk 20% more by 2015!!!”
Bicycling in Copenhagen
-on a citywide network of bicycle lanes
Going to workin the City of Copenhagen
37% use bicycle
27% drive car
33% use public transit
5% walk
Major complaint :
Serious congestions -on the bicycle lanes
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”
2010: After 50
years: Another
change of
Paradigme
WANTED:
- Lively City
- Attractive City
- Safe City
- Sustainable City
- Healthy City
In this City everythingwillbe
done to invitepeople to walk
and bicycle as much as
possible in the course of
theirdailydaydoings”
LEE KUAN YEW WORLD CITY PRICE
Singapore 21 March 2012
International Award for
outstandingcontributions to the
creation of vibrant, liveable and
sustainable urban communities
NER,
GREATER NEW YORK
9th Ave. Apr.08
9th Ave. Sep.08
Phot:DOT/NYC
Phot:DOT/NYC
WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY
Furter Informations:
www.gehlarchitects.dk
www.islandpress.org
”CITIES FOR PEOPLE” (sept 2010)
Available in all major languages !!
In this City everythingwillbe
done to invitepeople to walk
and bicycle as much as
possible in the course of
theirdailydaydoings”
Lively City
Attractive City
People Scale, Less Stress, Less Noise, Less Polution + a City
dominated by Attraction Nr. 1: PEOPLE
Safe city
Sustainable City
A good Public Realm is a crucial factor
for good Public Transportation
Healthy City
”Houston -the City with the
fattest people of the World”
Broadway Boulevard 23
May 2009
“When you can make it
there you can make it
anywhere,
New York, New York !!”