Jan Gehl Quotes

#1. Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.

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#2. Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

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#3. An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

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#4. If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.

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#5. A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,

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#6. First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

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#7. Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

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#8. 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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#9. Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They'll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

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#10. Something happens because something happens because something happens

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