CITIES FOR PEOPLE

JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR. LITT. FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS URBAN QUALITY CONSULTANTS, COPENHAGEN

Jane Jacobs 1961

*Christopher Alexander *Donald Appleyard *Clare Cooper Marcus *Allan Jacobs *Peter Bosselman *Donlyn Lyndon *Whilliam H. Whyte *Project for Public Spaces *Rob Adams, Melbourne *Jamie Lehner, Curitiba Enrique Penalose, Bogota *Richard Rogers, London

* Arch. Ralph Erskine

Those were the days when architects were big, and people were quite smal....

Graduation 1960
The all time low point of City planning

4
decades of research

Life Between Buildings 1st edition 1971 Published in man versions 15 languages

New City Spaces - 2001

Public Spaces Public Life - 1996

Bengali 2008!

New City Life 2006

Corbussier 1924

CIAM Athens Charter 1933

1900 Carinvasion mid 1950s

2000

Perth, West Australia

Elsinore, Denmark

Saturday morning, Westport, Ireland

Any day, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Wednesday afternoon, Dubai

Jane Jacobs 1961

1998 SECOND ATHENS CHARTER OF CITY PLANNING

Downtown, Dubai

New Towns

2009

Exist. Cities

Kenzo Tange, Singapore

Shanghai, China

Downtown, Dubai

Downtown, Dubai

Dubai

Wanted: - Lively City - Attractive City - Safe City - Sustainable City - Healthy City Needed:

ONE STONEFIVE BIRDS

POLICY

Copenhagen 1962-2009 :
1.3 million (region)

From traffic place to people place - a steady people friendly developement for 47 years!!!

Strget (main street) pedestrianized 1962

Jane Jacobs 1961

Strget Copenhagen pedestrian st. 1962

In 1962 all 18 squares were parking lots - now they are all people squares

The development of pedestrian areas in the city from 1962.7 times more People Space!

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

Many more People are walking in the city

4 times more people spend time in the city

In only 40 years the good season has been extended from 2 to 10 months

1900

1950 1965

2000

Necessity

Transport

Shopping

Enjoyment

Mainstreet Copenhagen in 100 years from necessary to optional activities

Wanted:

- Lively City - Attractive City - Safe City - Sustainable City - Healthy City

Copenhagen: New Public Life Policy 2009: WORLDS FINEST CITY FOR PEOPLE

Copenhagen: New Public Life Policy 2009: EVERYONE TO WALK 20% MORE BY 2015

Copenhagen-City of Bicycling

Bicycling in Copenhagen -on a citywide network of bicycle lanes

-an efficient, citywide transportation system

Bicycles are taken straight through the street crossings and the lanes are marked in blue

Bicycle signals turn green six seconds before the car signals

Green waves - for bicycles

17 km/h to 20 km/h

- sidewalks and bicycle lanes are taken across sidestreets, making the city more comfortable and people friendly!

A bicycle culture have step by step been developed Everybody bikes

Everybody bikes

The Danish Crown Prince is doing it too

Two guys on the road towards the throne

Princes Frederik and Christian on their way to the day care

50% Australian kid ! Even Australians can learn to bicycle if they start early!

Going to work in the City of Copenhagen

70% continue to bike in the winter 36% use bicycle
27% drive car 33% use public transit 5% walk

Official City Poster September 2007

Copenhagen The No 1 Bicycle in the World

Goals for 2015: 50% of all comuting on bicycles Bicycle Accidents to be halved

Major complaint 2002: Congestion -on the bicycle lanes!

9 Reconqured Cities
Barcelona Lyon Strasbourg Freiburg Copenhagen Portland Curitiba Bogota Melbourne

Melbourne, - 3 mio. Inh.

The Age 1980

c.

Places for People 1994

Report by Jan Gehl

Places for People 2004

Report Gehl Architects

www.gehlarchitects.dk

variety versus consistency

1992

2005

1992

2005

Greening of the City: 500 new trees pr. year

1992

2005

MELBOURNE City Center 1994-2004

Pedestrian traffic weekdays daytime: +40% Pedestrian traffic evening: +100 % Stationary activities +200-300%

Melburne -looks like any city in the new World

-but when it comes to street life and ambience it has by now a distinct touch of -say- Paris

Retail

Residential Office Vacancies Employment Bars and Pubs

Copenhagen

Melbourne oct 07

Wanted: - Lively City - Attractive City - Safe City - Sustainable City - Healthy City Needed:

ONE STONEFIVE BIRDS

POLICY

A CITY GOOD AT PARTIES, OLYMPICS and SUMMITS.

.. BUT NOT SO GLORIOUS FOR THE EVERYDAY LIFE

Main Street Sydney: George Street

Copenhagen Style Bicycle Lanes

(on Copenhagen Corner)

Sydney, Oct.2008

NYC Dept. of Transp. w/ Gehl Architects, Published: 13 nov 2008

9th Ave. Apr.08

9th Ave. Sep.08

9th Ave. Sept.08

Madison Square Nov. 2008

Broadway Boulevard Oct.2008

Broadway Boulevard 23 May 2009 When you can make it there you can make it anywhere, New York, New York !!

Jane Jacobs 1961

*
Christopher Alexander *Donald Appleyard *Clare Cooper Marcus *Allan Jacobs *Peter Bosselman *Donlyn Lyndon *Whilliam H. Whyte *Project for Public Spaces *Rob Adams, Melbourne *Jamie Lehner, Curitiba Enrique Penalose, Bogota *Richard Rogers, London

Arch. Ralph Erskine

WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY