Meeting with Jan Gehl
21.10.2014, SPCleantech took part in a meeting with Professor Jan Gehl, a Danish architect and prominent urban planner, promoter of the concept of humanistic urban development projects and changes in the urban space, among others, New York and Moscow.
The meeting promoted the latest book “Cities for People” and lecture, which will undoubtedly become a major event, particularly important in the context of many of the problems that the city has to solve in order to improve its health, the environment, reduce air pollution …
Meeting with Professor Gehl was also an opportunity to exchange views on improving the quality of life and quality of public space in many housing estates “the communist legacy” and so. “New urbanization”, usually only meets the requirements of the developer, with its negative social consequences – the result of low aesthetic quality of urban and architectural landscape.
SCHEDULE OF MEETING
18.00 – meeting with the Mayor of the City of Krakow Jacek Majchrowski
18.30 – Lecture – open meeting combined with the promotion of Polish-language edition of the book “Cities for People”
19.30 – Discussion with audience participation