14 Quotes by Jan Gehl

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    A good city is like a good party. People don’t want to leave early.

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    First life, then spaces, then buildings – the other way around never works.

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    An endless number of green buildings doesn’t make a sustainable city.

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    Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

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    Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

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    If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.

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    Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

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    Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.

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    Something happens because something happens because something happens.

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