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Page 1: LIVEABLE CITIES for the 21st Century · 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

JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR. LITT.

FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS

URBAN QUALITY CONSULTANTS, COPENHAGEN

LIVEABLE CITIES –for the 21st Century

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1960 CHANGE OF PARADIGME 1

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City Planning based on Modernisstic Ideology

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Human Scale completely shattered

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We form the cities –then the cities form us

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From 1950´s….

Carinvasion

1960 CHANGE OF PARADIGME 2

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City Planning based on cheap Gasoline

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5 km/hour

Architecture

•small spaces

•small signals

•details

•people

•close up´s + distant

views

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60 km/hour Architecture

•large spaces

•huge signals

•no details

•no people

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Jane Jacobs *

1961

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Strøget (main street)

pedestrianized 1962

1962 1986

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Those were the days when

architects were big, and people

were quite smal....

Graduation

1960

The all time low point of City planning

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Vietnam, 2008 Bangladesh, 2008 Iran, 2010

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2010: After 50

years: Another

change of

Paradigme

WANTED:

- Lively, livable City

- Safe City

- Sustainable City

- Healthy City

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Lively City

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Safe city

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Sustainable City

A good Public Realm is a crucial factor

for good Public Transportation

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”Houston -the City with the

fattest people of the World”

Healthy City

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Suggestion for simple

City improvement Policy

”In this City everything will be

done to invite people to walk and

bicycle as much as possible in

the course of their daily day

doings”

(Keyword is indeed inviting)

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Copenhagen 1962-2012 (region 1.3 million )

From traffic place to people place - a steady people

friendly developement for 50 years!!!

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In 1962 all 18 squares were

parking lots

- now they are all people squares

1953 • 1974

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1975

1985

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Public Space-Public Life Surweys: Copenhagen 1968, 1985, 1995 (+2005)

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Many more People are walking in the city

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4 times more people spend

time in the city

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In only 40 years the good season has been

extended from 2 to 10 months

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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”

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Priority for pedestrians and bicyclists Sidewalks and bicycle tracks across side streets

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City of Copenhagen

New Strategy 2009 “Best City in the World for People”

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-on a citywide network of bicycle lanes

Bicycling in Copenhagen

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-an efficient, citywide

transportation system

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Bicycles are taken

straight through the

street crossings and

the lanes are marked

with blue

Bicycle signals turns

green six seconds before

the car signals

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Trains & Metro

welcoming

bicycles

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A bicycle culture have step by step been

developed

Everybody bikes

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Going to work in the City of Copenhagen

37% use bicycle

27% drive car

33% use public transit

5% walk

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City of Copenhagen: Bicycle Strategy 2011 ”From rather good to being best in the World”

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Oct 2011: New Danish Government arriving on bicycles at

the Palace to be commissioned by the Queen.

No Limousines no more?

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Worlds Most Liveable Cities 2010 (”Monocle”)

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Suggestion for simple

City improvement Policy

”In this City everything will be

done to invite people to walk and

bicycle as much as possible in

the course of their daily day

doings”

(Keyword is indeed inviting)

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Melbourne, - 3 mio. Inh.

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The Age c. 1980

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Places for People 1994 Report by Jan Gehl

Places for People 2004

Report Gehl

Architects

www.gehlarchitects.dk

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Pedestrian traffic weekdays daytime: +40%

Pedestrian traffic evening: +100 %

Stationary activities +200-300%

MELBOURNE City Center 1994-2004

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Retail

Residential

Office Vacancies

Employment

Bars and Pubs

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Copenhagen Melbourne oct 07

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A CITY GOOD AT PARTIES, OLYMPICS and SUMMITS….

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….. BUT NOT SO GLORIOUS FOR THE EVERYDAY LIFE

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Main Street in Sydney to be transformed

to Pedestrians, Bicycles and Light Rail

Present situation George St. After conversion

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1. Zurich

2. Helsinki

3. Copenhagen

4. Vienna

5. Munich

6. Melbourne

7. Tokyo

8. Sydney

9. Auckland

10. Stockholm

World’s Most Liveable Cities,

Monocle 2012

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GREATER NEW YORK GREENER,

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9th Ave. Apr.08

9th Ave. Sep.08

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Phot:DOT/NYC

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2010

1. Bilbao

2. Melbourne

2012

1. New York

2. Copenhagen / Malmø

Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize

(Singapore)

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Moscow 2012

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WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY

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”Welcome to London”

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Enjoy yourself in EuroLille (Rem Koolhaas)

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Cities for People” Available in all major languages !!

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2010

Cities for People” Available in all major languages !!

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Copenhagen City Architect Tina Saabye

”For all of us, People planning is on our minds”

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Developing Cities

Dhaka,

Bangladesh

Hanoi, Vietnam

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Major complaint :

Serious congestions -on the bicycle lanes

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