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PUBLIC SPACES - PUBLIC LIFE -in the 21st CENTURY

JAN GEHL, PROFESSOR, DR,LITT. FOUNDING PARTNER: GEHL ARCHITECTS

1900 to 2006

Public Spaces -the Hard Ware

Publ.2001

Public Space as Meeting Place

Public Space as Market Place

Public Space as Connection Space

The traditional city......forever

The invaded city....from 1950s

The Carinvasion gets worser every day, until someone puts their foot down and decides to do something about it.

Bogota, Colombia - 6 mio. Inh.

The abandoned city..from 1970s

Miami by night -bring your headlights!

Or ............ -Running for your Life every Lunchtime!

Houston -the City with the fattest people of the World

A fully mecanized world ! world!

The reconquered city...from 1980s

*Willingnes to put constraints to the vehicular traffic *realisation of the importance of public life

9 reconquered Cities
Barcelona Lyon Strasbourg Freiburg Copenhagen Portland Curitiba Cordoba Melbourne

Public Life - the Soft Ware

Publ.2006

1900

1950 1965

2000

Mainstreet Copenhagen in 100 years From nessesary to optional activities

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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1900: Nine times more residents in this house than today

Corbussier 1924

CIAM Athens Charter 1933

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Jane Jacobs 1961

Strget Copenhagen pedestrian st. 1962

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Copenhagen School * Life Between Buildings *Copenhagen Surveys

1971..2006

1968, 1985, 1995, 2005

The New York School * William H. Whyte *PPS Project f. Public Spaces 1980 1988 2000

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The Berkeley School *Alexander *Appleyard *Cooper Marcus *Allan Jacobs *Bossellmann 1981 1988 1993

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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