"The formula is simple: go to the city, observe, and listen. And then join together to effect change." — Jan Gehl

Portrait of Jan Gehl, The City Whisperer— @smart_magazine @PPS_Placemaking @citiesforpeople

Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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"In cities that have done away with their pubic spaces, life has become totally privatized" — Jan Gehl @citiesforpeople

In cities that have done away with their pubic spaces, life has become totally privatized. ~Jan Gehl @citiesforpeople #TheHumanScale #CNU23
— Hazel Borys (@hborys) February 15, 2015

@1sidewalkballet you are so anti-progressive...go to Victoria, you will fit in there very well!
— Apple4ev3r (@Apple4ev3r) February 15, 2015

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Danish Architect Jan Gehl On "Changing Mindsets"

Jan Gehl, Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants, in this talk shares his view of the importance of the city today and for the future. His main point was that the best thing foundations can do is to change mindsets of people who can then go and make change in their local environments. He gave the example of New York City, where he helped to change city planners' ways of thinking when it came to making cities more people friendly. Various stakeholders in New York City then went on to transform key locations, such as Times Square, into places meant for people, rather than cars.

Must-watch — Jan Gehl The Human Scale

This is about much larger cities but much for smaller cities like Nanaimo to learn from their experience. Nanaimo has left it very late to begin the process of rebalancing the prominence of the car and the rights of the pedestrian and cyclist. "Cities for People" the motto of Jan Gehl Architects. Available for rent on iTunes and also recommended — Urbanized https://itunes.apple.com/ca/movie/urbanized/id481863360

Rent it on iTunes - Movies - The Human Scale

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