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Yay! Jan Gehl is coming to the RIBA on 29 November!  Everyone should go and see him!! You can book here! London - Cities for People: LKE Ozolins Lecture by Jan Gehl 29 November 2011 Growing demands for safe, sustainable and healthy cities are driving the search for new planning strategies for a post petroleum age. A people oriented approach to City Planning may constitute a strategy for meeting these challenges. 50 years after Jane Jacobs pointed to the shortcomings of the technocratic city planning principles the time is ripe for meaningful change. Jan Gehl discusses the need for re-orientation of our cities through global case stories from- among others- Copenhagen and New York and illustrates the case for people inspired interventions and city development.

Yay! Jan Gehl is coming to the RIBA on 29 November!  Everyone should go and see him!! You can book here!

London - Cities for People: LKE Ozolins Lecture by Jan Gehl

29 November 2011

Growing demands for safe, sustainable and healthy cities are driving the search for new planning strategies for a post petroleum age. A people oriented approach to City Planning may constitute a strategy for meeting these challenges. 50 years after Jane Jacobs pointed to the shortcomings of the technocratic city planning principles the time is ripe for meaningful change. Jan Gehl discusses the need for re-orientation of our cities through global case stories from- among others- Copenhagen and New York and illustrates the case for people inspired interventions and city development.

10/18/11
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