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Ten Steps To Pedestrian-Friendly Cities

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Nandita Godbole
9 August 2002 - 7:00am

Copenhagen, one of the world's great pedestrian-friendly cities, uses a ten-step program to transform "car-oriented" city to a "people-friendly "one.

"In Copenhagen, we have pioneered a method of systematically studying and recording people in the city," says Jan Gehl, a Danish architect and coauthor of Public Spaces--Public Life, a study on what makes the city's urban spaces work. "After twenty years of research, we've been able to prove that these steps have created four times more public life." Here is Copenhagen's program for a more pedestrian-friendly city."

Full Story: Pedestrian Cities
Source: MetropolisMag.com, October 10, 2005
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