What is does it mean to build on a “human scale?
” Jan Gehl: I’m speaking quite a bit about humanistic planning, or the “people dimension” and the “human dimension” in city planning, and by using that phrase I mean planning where you put an emphasis on the people walking and bicycling and also on public life in general. That means you start with the people and end with all the other things. . . . You start with the people and have motor traffic and buildings as second priorities. And the point in all this is that if you don’t start with the people side of the story, you can never add the people side after you have made cars happy and placed a number of buildings around a place, and then you look at what space is left over that can be used by people. You have to start with the people. So when we talk about human dimension in city planning, that is about putting a high priority on making sure people are treated well in the planning, and then the other things will have to be treated afterward. So that’s one side of it. The other side is
