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About Designing Cities for People, Not Cars – The revolutionary vision of architect Jan Gehl

Fifty percent of the world's population live in urban areas. By 2050 this figure is expected to increase to eighty percent. Gigantic systems of high-rise buildings and highways. Humans who live their lives in separate concrete boxes. Life in the cities is modern and enchanting but how do we plan these cities in a way which takes human behavior into account? The revolutionary architect Jan Gehl and his colleagues are on a mission to bring cities to life. They want to design the cities taking sustainability and human needs for inclusion and intimacy into consideration. They want to free the cities from the invasion of cars and thereby create space for pedestrians and bikeways. They want to reclaim public space. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00:00 - Introduction ▷ 0:00:26 - The Human Scale ▷ 0:03:52 - Chapter 1 | "First we shape our cities, then our cities shape us" ▷ 0:17:07 - Chapter 2 | "You measure what you care about" ▷ 0:30:48 - Chapter 3 | "How do you do more with less?" ▷ 0:42:11 - Chapter 4 | "Walking

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Designing Cities for People, Not Cars – The revolutionary vision of architect Jan Gehl
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77 minutes
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English
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