10/9/12 | Jan Gehl in The New Yorker
Jan Gehl, "Danish urban-planning guru," and his work to bring a philosophy of cities for people to Moscow, is profiled in The New Yorker. The piece begins:
"When Jan Gehl looks at Tverskaya, Moscow’s broad main street, whose decorative Stalinist blocks and Art Nouveau department stores lead straight toward the Kremlin (thanks to Joseph Stalin, who tore down churches and moved larger edifices aside to take the bend out of the venerable roadway), the Danish urban-planning guru sees cars parked on the sidewalks. He sees pedestrians hurrying along the narrow strip left between Range Rovers’ fenders and the buildings’ large shop windows. He sees women in high heels. He sees asphalt."
