lars gemzoe - the city as meeting place.pdf

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The City as Meeting PlaceLars Gemze, Senior Lecturer of Urban Design

Associate Partner Gehl Architects

2008

0. Pedestrians are invisible

1. Life is changing2. The city of bicycles is a soft city

3. Changing urban culture


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Lots of data on vehiculartraffic

Always Traffic Departments with data

about vehicular traffic

constantly new models, marketing,

high speed, noise, pollution,organisations etc.

No data on pedestrians

same old model, no marketing, lowspeed, small size, no pollution, usually

no organisations etc

No city department for Public Life

0. Pedestrians are invisible in the

planning process


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Many of the reports can be downloaded as PDF-files on our website

www.gehlarchitects.dk

Data is key - Making People Visible in PlanningPublic Space - Public Life surveys


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Major City Improvement Projects


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New City Spaces

Jan Gehl & Lars Gemze

New City Life

Gehl, Gemze,

Sndergaard &

Kirkns

Life Between Buildings

Jan Gehl

Gehl LiteraturePublic Spaces -

Public Life

Jan Gehl & LarsGemze


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buildings

life

space


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Optional activities

1. Public Life is Changing

Activerecreation

Passiverecreation

Necessary activities

Optional activities Urban recreation


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From necessary to optional activities

Will occur regardless of

the quality provided

Will occur only if

good quality is provided


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Public life - if good quality is not provided


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2. The city of bicycles is a soft city


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Going to work in the municipality of Copenhagen

36% use bicycle

27% drive car

33% use public transit

5% walk

70% continue to bike in the winter


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Bicycling has doubled in the last 10 years

Peak hour traffic


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Green wave for bicycles

From 17 km/h to 20 km/h


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Study area 1968, 1986, 1995 and 2005


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From car invasion ....to people places


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1962 First Pedestrian street

1973 Network of streets

2006 More and more places to stay


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Strget - the first car-free street 1962


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Pedestrian streets became very popular .even on rainy days


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Fiolstrde - before ..and after 1968


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Nyhavn - before and after 1980


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..and after 1993

Amagertorv

before latest renovation


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Town Hall Square - before ..and after 1996


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4. public life study 2005


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Extending the week


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Extending the season


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Outdoor cafes all year round


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Outdoor cafes all year round

The number of caf


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The number of caf

chairs has increased

with more than 60%

from 1986 to 1995


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M f ti l d t


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Jazz festivalMore festivals and events


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Carnival


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Urban recreation in the city centre and elsewhere


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Urban recreation in the city centre......and elsewhere


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Swimming down town


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The most diverse meeting place in Copenhagen

A city can invite more driving


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A city can invite more driving

More roads = more traffic

A city can invite more bicyclists


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A city can invite more bicyclists

More bicycle lanes = more bicycling

A city can invite more people


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A city can invite more people

More good public space = more public life!


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Thank you


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