Danish Design:
Jan Gehl

Author of many of the books that have defined urban planning today, Jan Gehl is a Danish architect and urban consultant based in Copenhagen whose work has focused on making cities function at the people scale. He sees the city as being built at a city scale, site scale, and people scale, but feels that most architects and urban planners completely ignore the people scale. They create cities from an aerial view and ignore the life between buildings that truly makes the space work. In his practice he seeks to re-orient the city away from cars and towards the pedestrian and cyclist in order to make healthy and happy cities.

Topic Shortcuts

• 00:47Study of Human Behaviour
• 02:11The Shift of Paradigm
• 04:01The Brasilia Syndrome
• 06:30Interaction with Architectural Form
• 08:41The City of Christchurch
• 09:58The Street Space
• 11:18Bicycle Policy in Copenhagen
• 14:05Documentation of the Use of Public Space
• 15:46Gradual Change over Time
• 18:24Refinement of Public Transportation
• 20:24The New Melbourne
• 22:21Digital Interactions
• 27:43Urban Planning in Seattle
• 28:14Parachuting the Little Scale
• 29:03Human Scale in a City
• 30:21Spaces, Smaller than You Need

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