We cannot live without having cities on a human scale,” he insists. And that was a serious offense. Some people say now we should only have sidewalks that are six-metres wide. They didn’t realize that by speeding everybody out so they could have fresh air, they ruined the social life of the cities. “Doctors came up with a treatment, and then we were left with many blocks of isolated citizens. City planners, he tells Driving Change, must not panic and make the same mistakes modernists did when they came up with communities where everyone lived far away from each other for fear of tuberculosis, for instance. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it”.Ĭovid-19 has not shaken his faith. His remarkable career has been proof of the truth of his belief that “cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same.
While others have called for a more humane approach to cities over the years, arguably no one has had as much influence on shaping urban spaces and shifting the way we think about urban design as Jan Gehl.
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