design theories of urban planner jan ghel

1. INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE
H.N.G.U, PATAN
URBAN SEMINAR
“DESIGN THEORIES OF URBAN PLANNER:- JAN GHEL”
BY:-
DEESHA KHAMAR
SHREYA RASTOGI
PARV DHONDE
ISHAN JAIN

2. JAN GEHL

3. • Jan Gehl is a practicing Urban Design
Consultant and Professor of Urban Design at
the School of Architecture in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
• He has extensively researched the form and
use of public spaces and put his findings to
practice in mule.
• His company, Gehl Architects -- Urban Quality
Consultants, creatively reimagines the
multiple ways in which communities use the
public realm.
• For Gehl, design always begins with an
analysis of the spaces between buildings.
tipple locations throughout the world.
Gallery of Jan Gehl on the Global Need for Liveable Cities - 2
JAN GHEL BOOK: CITIES FOR PEOPLE

4. BIOGRAPHY
• In 1960, Jan Gehl earned his BA and MA in Architecture
from the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish
Academy of Fine Arts and began practicing as an
architect.
• In 1966 he received a 5-year research grant from his
former school to study the form and use of public space.
his work spawned his first book, Life between Buildings.
• Other publications describing Gehl's intensive research
on the social uses of public space include Public Spaces-
Public Life (1996, 2004), and New City Spaces (2008),
which have been translated into multiple languages.
AWARDS
• In 1993 he won the Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for
exemplary contributions to Town Planning and Territorial
Development from the International Union of Architects,
and in 1998 he received the EDRA/Places Research
Award from the Environmental Design Research
Association.

5. PERSPECTIVES
• Necessary, Optional, and Social Activity.
• Gehl distinguishes between necessary/functional
activities, optional/recreational activities and social
activities in public spaces
NECESSARY activities take place regardless of the quality of
the physical environment,
OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES depend to a significant degree on
what the place has to offer and how it makes people
behave and feel about it. The better a place, the more
optional activity occurs and the longer necessary activity
lasts.
SOCIAL ACTIVITY is the fruit of the quality and length of the
other types of activities, because it occurs spontaneously
when people meet in a particular place. Social activities
include children's play, greetings and conversations,
communal activities of various kinds, and simply seeing and
hearing other people.
SOURCE:- https://humancities.eu/story/work-methodology-according-to-the-principles-of-jan-gehl/

6. Life Between Buildings.
• Life between buildings has become Jan Gehl's
major focus of study and work. By starting with
public life and the areas in which it takes place,
building design becomes a means to an end, rather
than an end in itself. Gehl emphasizes that life
between buildings is a dimension of architecture
that deserves more careful treatment. It is where
social interaction and perception, urban recreation,
and the sensory experience of city life take place.

7. JAN GEHL'S 5 RULES FOR DESIGNING GREAT CITIES
SOURCE:- https://issuu.com/gehlarchitects/docs/apeldoorn_100616

8. 1.Stop Building 'Architecture for Cheap
Gasoline'
Climate change and public health are two factors that Jan Gehl
says should be of uLmost importance to planners, especially
considering that "for 50 years, we made cities in such a way that
people are almost forced to sit down all day in their cars, in their
offices, or in their homes. This has led to serious situations
health-wise."What causes that?
According to Gehl, it is cars and the availability of cheap
gasoline that created the suburban construction period, but
when gas starts to become more expensive, it’s no longer a
good idea.
This line of thinking is reflected in a recent study published in
The Lancet which found that those living in city centers have a
longer life expectancy than those living in the outside areas
because they walk more often over the course of their lives
when making their daily commutes.
The research was conducted on 6,822 people from 14 cities in
ten countries with participants who were between 18 and 66
years old. The studied noted, among other things, each person's
ability to walk and their access to public transport and parks.
Las Vegas, United State

9. • In 2009, the City of Copenhagen enacted "A
Metropolis for People", a plant inspired by a theory
from Gehl Architects that allowed for the design of a
vision and goals for urban life in the Danish capital in
2015.
• Thanks to that, we’re able to see that six years ago
public figures in Copenhagen set out to make it the
most livable city in the world, ie. a sustainable city in
which, through their public spaces, people are invited to
have a unique and diverse life.
• To move towards this goal, the plan was structured in
three main components: walking more, spending more
time in public spaces and getting out of “private
cocoons” more. As Gehl explained during his stay in
New York, this made the city more exciting, interesting
and safer, as well as promoted social inclusion
2. Make Public Life the Driver for Urban Design
Superkilen Park, Copenhagen

10. 3.Design for Multisensory
Experiences
To explain this point, Gehl
uses Venice and Brasilia as examples,
stating that if you want to have an
experience where the senses are active and
therefore, more pleasing, you should visit
the former. However, if you don’t want
something like that, go to the Brazilian
capital city.
These examples show how people living
there have lost the opportunity to enjoy
their surroundings through their senses,
since as Gehl says "we have broken all the
rules to make automobiles happy."
In contrast, what cities should be doing is
building around the body and senses of
human beings to take advantage of our
capabilities, so that people can enjoy their
cities to their fullest potential.
Venicde, Italy.

11. • Promoting equality in cities has become a mission in various parts
of the world. We can achieve more equality if public transport
becomes accessible, efficient, and a reasonable alternative to
cars.
• This way, people who live in the suburbs, because the land there is
cheaper and more suited to their income, don’t need to spend so
much of their budget on transportation, something that people
who currently live in city centers don’t need to worry about.
4. Make Public Transportation More Equitable
5.Ban Cars
According to Gehl, the car is not a smart way of
getting around, especially in cities that have
populations of 10 million or more, like in South
America, Africa, and Asia.
In the latter region, Gehl uses Singapore as an
example, by saying that it is a very small island,
and as a result of the large number of cars there is
almost no more free space on the streets, even
when in a dense city it’s possible to get
everywhere much faster either on foot or by
bicycle.
He also argues that "it is no secret that the good
Traffic in Singapore.

12. References:-
• https://www.archdaily.com/801431/jan-gehl-5-rules-for-designing-great-cities
• https://humancities.eu/story/work-methodology-according-to-the-principles-of-jan-gehl/
• https://issuu.com/gehlarchitects/docs/issuu_270_london_pspl_2004