Blog Session 6: Option 2

For now, a professional that is interesting to me is Jan Gehl, he was born in Denmark in 1936. He is an architect and also a professor of urban planning at the Real Academia Danesa de Bellas Artes.

He collaborated on numerous projects for urban planning, an example that I really like is the city of Copenhagen that is the capital of his country.

This city is considered a world reference, it is one of the cities with the highest quality of life, due to its interest in promoting public spaces and social conditions as part of its priorities. Jan Gehl was the one who promoted this through a movement that seeks to rescue the human needs for interaction, inclusion and intimacy which were forgotten during the urbanization process, for this reason Copenhagen began to integrate strategies and public policies for the well-being of people. Thanks to him and another professionals Copenhagen changed considerably from the city of the automobile to being the "city of the people".

I really admire him I read some of his books and I really liked the book called “Cities for the people”, for this book Copenhagen began to be called that way.