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Jan Gehl, Planner for NYC Bike Lanes and People Spaces Interview
The Sierra Club has a great interview with Jan Gehl, Copenhagen planner and consultant for New York City’s new bike and public spaces infrastrcture. Jan details the ideas behind creating more “human-scaled” places, and specfically notes how making accommodations for bicyclists is a key to creating a more livable city. One major point in our […]
An interview with New York’s planning consultant
This video is an alfresco interview with Danish planner, Jan Gehl, in a new plaza that he helped develop for New York City. We’ve featured Jan in the past, and have noted how NYC hired his firm to develop their new public space plan. In the interview, Gehl notes that before he started working there, […]
Planetizen’s “Complete Streets” Series
(A green streets poster produced by the City of Portland as part of the Environmental Services Green Streets Initiative.) The website, Planetizen, is putting out a fascinating series of articles on Complete Streets, titled “Rethinking the Street Space: Why Street Design Matters” (Part one, Part two). In it, the designers note: “In the past two […]
Bike Friendly Oak Cliff 