"Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society."

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Source : Jan Gehl (2013). “Cities for People”, p.6, Island Press

Jan Gehl

#Cities Quotes #Space Quotes #Healthy Quotes

“I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.”
“I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is.”

Source : Curve magazine Interview, 2006.
“A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.”
“There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.”
“My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."”
“There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”
“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”
“With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.”

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