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A review by branev
Градове за хората by Jan Gehl
4.0
Being a layman in urbanism and a person with pure interest in the psychology of developing progressive and balanced cities, I enjoyed this book a lot.
Jan Gehl observes the cross-country an cross-culture patterns that are preferred while planning cities and the environment in them. He is a strong proponent of the theory that in time when urban population grows, traffic should be getting predominantly green = walking, driving bikes and using public transportation. If he was just repeating this (as some reviews here in Goodreads hint) I would feel a bit uninspired. Instead, he exemplifies in numerous ways why it is important to adjust the cityscape to this novel credo and how it has helped in real-life scenarios. What I enjoyed greatly is that apart of the detailed stories he shares a rich selection of pictures that sunk in my mind and even made me add a few new cities in my to-visit list :)
Sienna, here I come!
Jan Gehl observes the cross-country an cross-culture patterns that are preferred while planning cities and the environment in them. He is a strong proponent of the theory that in time when urban population grows, traffic should be getting predominantly green = walking, driving bikes and using public transportation. If he was just repeating this (as some reviews here in Goodreads hint) I would feel a bit uninspired. Instead, he exemplifies in numerous ways why it is important to adjust the cityscape to this novel credo and how it has helped in real-life scenarios. What I enjoyed greatly is that apart of the detailed stories he shares a rich selection of pictures that sunk in my mind and even made me add a few new cities in my to-visit list :)
Sienna, here I come!