Jan Gehl Quotes

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

Jan Gehl

#2. Something happens because something happens because something happens

Jan Gehl

#3. 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

#4. A person will buy something they really don't need off of a salesperson they really like before they buy something they desperately need off of someone they despise. ... Johnny Flora

Johnny Flora

#5. The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.

Tom Brokaw

#6. 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

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

Jan Gehl

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

Jan Gehl

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

Jan Gehl

#10. There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

Bear Grylls

#11. Arthur spake, 'Behold, for these have sworn To wage my wars, and worship me their King; The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And we that fight for our fair father Christ,

Alfred Tennyson

#12. What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion offers is that God is driving that bus.

John Ryman

#13. and considers that the two dead girls are worthless and

Book Sense

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

Jan Gehl

#15. Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change

Brett Blumenthal

#16. It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

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

Jan Gehl

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

Jan Gehl

#19. When you hear the phrase "rescue the financial system," translate it in your mind into "keep the debts on the books." They are trying to find a way for you (and debtor nations too) to keep paying and for the debt to keep growing.

Charles Eisenstein