080528 ui lecture jan gehl urban design for people

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JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR,LITT.

FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS

URBAN QUALITY CONSULTANTS, COPENHAGEN

PUBLIC SPACES - PUBLIC LIFE

-for the 21st CENTURY



Those were the days when

architects were big, and people

were quite smal....

Graduation

1960



” Life Between

Buildings”

1st edit ion 1971Published in many

versions

15 languages

” New City

Spaces” - 2001

” Public Spaces

Public Life

- 1996

” New City Life” -

2006

4decades

ofresearch



MAKING PEOPLE

VISIBLEIN THE PLANNING PROCES

..and making Architects,Landscape Architects& Planners study People before they design....



1900: Nine

times more

residents in this

house than

today



Corbussier

1924

CIAM

Athens Charter1933



1900

mid 1950 s

2000

Perth, West Australia Elsinore, Denmark

Carinvasion



Jane Jacobs

1961Strøget

Copenhagen

pedestrian st.

1962



” Copenhagen School”

* Life Between Buildings

*Copenhagen Surveys

1971..2006 1968, 1985, 1995, 2005



First Oil Crisis 1973

Traffic Calming 1970s

1998

NEW ATHENS CHARTEROF CITY PLANN



GEHL Architects

Urban Quality ConsultantsStaff: 36

Awerage Age: 34

Women in Staff: 65% Current

Projects: 80 In 30Countries

- Lively City

- Attractive City

- Safe City

- Sustainable City

- Healthy City

Area of Expertise



Copenhagen

London

Edinburgh

Oslo

Perth

Adelaide

Melbourne

Brisbane

Cape Town

Richmond

Seattle

San Fransisco

WellingtonChristchurch

Amman

Stockholm

Riga

Rotterdam

Zürich

Major City Improvement Projects:

New York

Sydney

xx

Comming Projects

Current Projects

Previous Projects



JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR,LITT.

FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS

URBAN QUALITY CONSULTANTS, COPENHAGEN

PUBLIC SPACES - PUBLIC LIFE

-in the 21st CENTURY



THE HUMAN DIMENSION

- introducing ” the Client”



IN SEARCH OF A HUMAN SCALE



THE CLIENT:

A slow, linear, horizontal,

max 5 km/h walking creature



5 km/hour Architecture

•small spaces

•small signals

•details

•people

•close up´s + distant views



60 km/hour Architecture•large spaces

•huge signals

•no details

•no people



Dubai 2005

Venice 2005



” THE BRASILIA SYNDROME” !

(City Planning from 10.000 meter above the ground )



Units are getting bigger and bigger

- but people are still slow and small



If in doubt

-leave some meters OUT



Think BIG

- but allways rember to make people places small

IN CONCLUSION



IN CONCLUSION

•Small is beautiful

•Slow is beautiful

•Low is beautiful



Prerequisit ies for Planning:

•Human Body

• Human Movements

• Human Senses

• Human Interaction

• Human Behaviour



2. THE CITIES



Public Space as Meeting Place



Public Space as Market Place



Public Space as Connection Space



The traditional city......forever



Parantes

Th i d d it f 1950



The invaded city....from 1950s



Saturday morning, Westport, Ireland



Rumenia



Wednesday afternoon, Dubai



The Carinvasion gets worser every day,



g y y

until someone puts their foot down and

decides to do something about it.

Bogota, Colombia - 6 mio. Inh.

Th d it f 1980



The reconquered city...from 1980s

Wanted:



GEHL ARCHITECTS

-Urban Quality Consultants

Wanted:

- Lively City- Attractive City

- Safe City

- Sustainable City

- Healthy City

Reconqured Cities



Willingnes to place

constraints to the vehicular

traffic

Keywords

London – Congestion Charge 2003

Improved Public TransportReconqured Cities

Keywords:



Keywords:

New Trams: Bordeux New Metro: openhagen

New Trams: Strasbour New Bus Ra id Transit, Bo ota

Bicycling: Please BikeReconqured Cities



Keywords

CICLOVIA Bogota ,Colombia Grandmother, Copenhagen

Careful planning forReconqured Cities



Walking and Public Life

Keywords:



9 Reconqured Cities• Barcelona

• Lyon• Strasbourg

• Freiburg

• Copenhagen• Portland

• Curitiba

• Bogota• Melbourne

There is much more to walking -than walking!



There is much more to walking than walking!

A mode of transport - but with a potential for much more

-and the ” much more” is by far the more interesting part!

You can walk -and walk - and walk....



-but you could just as well ” walk`n-talk”



Slide 63

- or ” walk`n-watch” (and be watched!)



- or ” walk`n-wink”



Slide 63

-or you can ” stop`n watch”



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If you can find a vacant bollard ! (Campo in Siena, Italy)

-or you can ” stop`n-talk”



-or you can ” walk`n-waltz`”



or you can ” stop`n watch`n learn”



-or you can stop n - watch n - learn



-and whenever you feel likeyou can adress your fellow

citiziens

Summing up:



We are talking aboutlife itself!

-everything worth

talking about happens

when you are on yourfeet -that`s what we

were made for!

What is good about



bicycling?

It is easy to bring the bicycle



alongYes, we caneasily becomepedestrians

True door todoor transport

• Pedestrians and

bicyclists

are in

It takes up little space



p p

Same distanceand the differentuse of energy

• 10 bicycles = 1 carparking space

Bicycle tracks are efficient



Bicycle tracks are efficient

• 5 times more people can move per hour on

a bicycle track compared with a lane for

It is good for the environment -



no pollution• It also uses less energy• Even less than walking!

Same distanceand the differentuse of energy

(Measured inpotatoes”)

It is good for the environment -



no noise

It is good for your health



It is good for your health• “Bicyclists live longer”• 30 minutes of exercise every day

• = 7 more years to live!

“Bicyclists live longer”

“Danes who bicycle to work every dayreduce the risk of serious diseases with50%”

Politiken Danish Newspaper

28.04.2000

cities - biking is part of the



solutionBicycling is C02 neutral

Copenhagenerscycling save over90.000 t CO

2annually

(5 billions Australian $)



23 billion Dkr insavings forsociety if theDanes woulduse the bicycle50% more



” In this City everything will be

done to invite people to walk andbicycle as much as possible in

the course of their daily daydoings”



PUBLIC SPACE – PUBLIC LIFE SURVEYS:



Public Spaces & Public Life, Perth,1993 Places for People, Melbourne , 1994

Public Spaces & Public Life, Adelaide, 2002 Places for People, Melbourne , 2004

SYDNEY 2007



SYDNEY

Study area 2.200.000

m2



PROTECTION

COMFORT

ENJOYMENT

Piazza Il Campo, Siena, Italy (14th century)

The Finest Urban Space in the World



- a miracle or straightforward common sense?

Overview of Quality criterias-The Pedestrian landscape



Campo in Siena

” In this City everything will be



done to invite people to walk andbicycle as much as possible in

the course of their daily daydoings”

brief visit to Copenhagen

-City of Bicycling



Copenhagen-City of Bicycling

it id t k f bi l l

Bicycling in Copenhagen



-on a citywide network of bicycle lanes



Constantly improvements



-an efficient, citywide

transportation system



Bicycles are taken

straight through the

street crossings and



street crossings andthe lanes are marked

with blue

Bicycle signals turns

green six seconds before

the car signals

Green wave 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!



people friendly!



Regulations: All Taxis must provide

racks for 2 bicycles



Regional Trainswelcoming

bicycles



New Metro - please bring your bike

Are lifts are provided? Yes, of course!

A bicycle culture have step by ste

been developed

Everybody bikes



Everybody bikes

Everybody bikes



Ministers from the cabinet & ev

visitors do it



visitors do it...

Age 92

Even old folks do it!

(It s open to age groups 5-85+)



Mother in law:Age 85

People with high income b i ke more in

hagen!



CopenhagenBicycle Account1998

Peop le w i t h h ig h incomCopen hagen!

The Danish Crown Prince is

doing it too



doing it tooTwo guys on the

road towards thethrone

Princes Frederik and

Christian on their

way to the day care

50% Tasmanian kid !

Bicycling has doubled in 10 years



Inner city morning peak

Going to work in the City of Copenhagen

36% use bicycle

70% continue to bike in the winter



36% use bicycle

27% drive car

33% use public transit

5% walk

0% co t ue to b e t e te



Slide 115

Major complaint 2002:Congestion

-on the bicycle lanes!

more biking less accidents

Official City Poster

September 2007



Copenhagen

The No 1 Bicyclein the World

Goals for 2015:

50% of all comuting

on bicyclesBicycle Accidents to

be halved”



Copenhagen Melbourne oct 07

-have started building 6000 kilometers

bicycle lanes



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-ONE STONE

-FIVE BIRDS



FIVE BIRDS

- Lively City

- Attractive City

- Safe City

- Sustainable City

- Healthy City

ELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY

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