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1 INTRODUCING SPECTACULAR MONUMENTS AS CITY IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY

2 INTRODUCING SPECTACULAR MONUMENTS AS CITY IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY

3 Or-IMPROVING PUBLIC SPACES AS CITY IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY BARCELONA LYON COPENHAGEN MELBOURNE

4 -ONE STONE -FIVE BIRDS - Lively City - Attractive City - Safe City - Sustainable City - Healthy City

5 CITIES FOR PEOPLE JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR. LITT. FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS URBAN QUALITY CONSULTANTS, COPENHAGEN

6 4 decades Life Between Buildings 1st edition 1971 Published in many versions 15 languages of research New City Spaces Public Spaces Public Life New City Life

7 Carinvasion mid 1950 s Perth, West Australia Elsinore, Denmark

8 All Cities have Traffic Departments and perfect statistics concerning traffic and parking * The cars are very visible and everpresent in the planning proces

9 Do you know of any Citydepartment for pedestrians and public life? Hardly any City have statistics and data concerning the people who use the city * The people in the City tends to be very invisible and poorly represented in the planning proces

10 Major City Improvement Projects: Copenhagen London Edinburgh Oslo Stockholm Riga Rotterdam Zürich Reykjavik Seattle San Fransisco x New York Mexico City Previous Projects Current Projects Comming Projects Cape Town Amman Muscat Perth Adelaide Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Wellington Auckland Christchurch

11 Gehl & Gemzoe NUEVOS ESPACIOS URBANOS

12 Public Space as Meeting Place

13 Public Space as Market Place

14 Public Space as Connection Space

15 The traditional city...forever

16 The invaded city...from 1950s

17 Saturday morning, Westport, Ireland

18 Wednesday afternoon, Dubai

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20 The abandoned city..from 1970s

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22 Or... -Running for your Life - every Lunchtime! Houston -the City with the fattest people of the World

23 A fully mecanized world!

24 The reconquered city...from 1980s

25 9 Reconqured Cities Barcelona Lyon Strasbourg Freiburg Copenhagen Portland Curitiba Bogota Melbourne

26 Reconqured Cities Keywords Willingnes to place constraints to the vehicular traffic

27 Reconqured Cities Keywords: Careful planning for Walking and Public Life

28 Wanted: - Lively City - Attractive City - Safe City - Sustainable City - Healthy City GEHL ARCHITECTS -Urban Quality Consultants

29 Lively City

30 Attractive City

31 Safe city

32 Sustainable City A good Public Realm is a crucial factor for good Public Transportation

33 Houston -the City with the fattest people of the World Healthy City

34 9 Reconqured Cities Barcelona Lyon Strasbourg Freiburg Copenhagen Portland Curitiba Bogota Melbourne

35 INVITATIONS TO THE CITY

36 More Roads = More Traffic

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39 Seoul, Korea before after

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41 The Carinvasion gets worser every day, until someone puts their foot down and decides to do something about it. Bogota, Colombia - 6 mio. Inh.

42 Copenhagen Street: 2 Sidewalks, 2 proper bicycle lanes, street trees, 2 lanes for 2 way traffic...and a substantial median to facilitate crossing the street

43 Copenhagen-City of Bicycling

44 Bicycling in Copenhagen -on a citywide network of bicycle lanes

45 -an efficient, citywide transportation system

46 Bicycles are taken straight through the street crossings and the lanes are marked in blue Bicycle signals turn green six seconds before the car signals

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48 - sidewalks and bicycle lanes are taken across sidestreets, making the city more comfortable and people friendly!

49 Regional Trains welcoming bicycles

50 New Metro - please bring your bike Are lifts provided? Yes, of course!

51 Everybody bikes

52 Copenhagen Bicycle Account 1998

53 The Danish Crown Prince is doing it too Two guys on the road towards the throne Princes Frederik and Christian on their way to the day care 50% Australian kid! Even Australians can learn to bicycle if they start early!

54 Bicycling has doubled in 10 years Inner city morning peak

55 Going to work in the City of Copenhagen 70% continue to bike in the winter 36% use bicycle 27% drive car 33% use public transit 5% walk

56 Slide 115 Major complaint 2002: Congestion -on the bicycle lanes!

57 Official City Poster September 2007 Copenhagen The No 1 Bicycle in the World Goals for 2015: 50% of all comuting on bicycles Bicycle Accidents to be halved

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59 Better quality public spaces = more pedestrians and more public life Champs-Èlysèes, Paris Before 1992 After 1992

60 before after

61 Copenhagen From traffic place to people place

62 Strøget (main street) pedestrianized 1962

63 In 1962 all 18 squares were parking lots - now they are all people squares

64 Before.and after: A Pedestrian Priority Street

65 A gradual reduction of Parking 2-3% pr. year

66 The development of pedestrian areas in the city from times more People Space!

67 Public Space-Public Life Surweys: Copenhagen 1968, 1985, 1995 (+2005)

68 Many more People are walking in the city

69 4 times more people spend time in the city

70 In only 40 years the good season has been extended from 2 to 10 months

71 Nessessity Transport Shopping Enjoyment Mainstreet Copenhagen in 100 years From nessesary to optional activities

72 1900 to 2000: From necessary to optional activities in the Public Spaces Will occur only if good quality is provided Will occur regardless of the quality provided

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75 Melbourne, - 3 mio. Inh.

76 The Age 1980

77 Places for People Melbourne 1994 Places for People Melbourne 2004

78 From to residents in the city center

79 Carefully designed street furniture throughout the City

80 The City as a Gallery for contemporary Art

81 Light as Art

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83 variety versus consistency Greening of the City: 500 new trees pr. year

84 MELBOURNE City Center Pedestrian traffic weekdays daytime: +40% Pedestrian traffic evening: +100 % Stationary activities %

85 Melburne -looks like any city in the new World

86 -but when it comes to street life and ambience it has by now a distinct touch of -say- Paris

87 Retail Residential Office Vacancies Employment Bars and Pubs

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89 Copenhagen Melbourne oct 07

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91 A CITY GOOD AT PARTIES, OLYMPICS and SUMMITS.

92 .. BUT NOT SO GLORIOUS FOR THE EVERYDAY LIFE

93 Main Street Sydney: George Street

94 Copenhagen Style Bicycle Lanes (on Copenhagen Corner) Sydney, Oct.2008

95 Mexico City

96 NYC Dept. of Transp. w/ Gehl Architects, Published: 13 nov 2008

97 9th Ave. Apr.08 9th Ave. Sep.08

98 9th Ave. Sept.08

99 Madison Square Nov. 2008

100 Broadway Boulevard Oct.2008

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105 9+1 Reconquered Cities? Barcelona Lyon Strasbourg Freiburg Copenhagen Portland Bogota Cordoba Melbourne Valencia

106 WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY

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111 HUMANIZING PUBLIC SPACES

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