Gehl Quotes

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

Jan Gehl

#2. Something happens because something happens because something happens

Jan Gehl

#3. There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment
anywhere.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. 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.

Jan Gehl

#5. Nobody knows the truffles I've seen.

George Lang

#6. People are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#7. 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.

Jan Gehl

#8. I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity.

Mordechai Vanunu

#9. I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

Thomas Kinkade

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

Jan Gehl

#11. To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.

Sue Wicks

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

Jan Gehl

#13. I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.

Richard Branson

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

Jan Gehl

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

Jan Gehl

#16. Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me

Barbara Coloroso

#17. Microinteractions are an exercise in restraint, in doing as much as possible with as little as possible. Embrace the constraints and focus your attention on doing one thing well. Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.

Dan Saffer

#18. Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

Sidney Nolan

#19. The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

John Oliver

#20. Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.

Kevin Ansbro

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

Jan Gehl

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

Jan Gehl