Jan Gehl - A life dedicated to Urban Planning | Architects, not Architecture.

As part of the AnA Copenhagen in July 2023, we had the opportunity to get to know the Danish professor and architect Jan Gehl.
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About Jan Gehl:
Jan Gehl, (Denmark, 1936), architect, professor, and consultant on urban design, has focused his career on improving the quality of urban life, by reorienting the design of the city towards the people in the cities: public life, pedestrians, and cyclists. His books include the by now “classics” “Life between Buildings” and “Cities for People”. Published in more than 40 languages. Major City improvement projects with Gehl Architects include Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, London, Moscow and New York.
Jan Gehl has been awarded the ”Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to Town Planning” by The International Union of Architects , honorary doctor degrees in Edinburgh, Toronto, Varna and Halifax and is honorary fellow of the Architectural Institutes in Denmark, UK (RIBA), USA, Canada, Scotland, Ireland as well as the Planning Institutes in Australia and Ireland.

[@alcedob.5850]

Jan Gehl seems like an awesome person. I live in a city that is developing under influence of his ideas for the last few years and it is awesome. I am very grateful for this, as well as for this great lecture

[@architectsnotarchitecture]

which city is that?

[@alcedob.5850]

@@architectsnotarchitecture Moscow. Our city helped to publish the Russian translation of "Cities for people" in 2012 and is getting more and more walkable each year, which is more impressive when you consider how huge it is.

[@saranbhatia8809]

Great talk!💯

[@MrNagrom71]

Genialt enkelt.