![]() The architecture of that time was very often “an obsession with architecture for architecture’s sake,” and took very little interest in the inhabitants. Meet 81-year-old Danish architect Jan Gehl who, for more than fifty years, has focused on improving the quality of urban life by helping people to “re-conquer the city.” Gehl has studied the relationship between life and form since the mid-1960s, when he started questioning the modernist approach of looking at the architectural model from above instead of from the inside. “We now know that first, we form the cities, but then the cities form us.” ![]() These Are Jan Gehl’s Methods For Building Good Cities ![]()
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