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The concept of “the city at human scale”
Authors: Katsavounidou, Garyfallia
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Urban design deals with the physical form of urban public space, and thus has a major influence on the life of people inhabiting this space. The foundations of the human-centered approach in urban design are manifest in Jan Gehl’s statement: “We shape our cities and then cities shape us”. To approach the human scale in the physical design of the city, we need to change our viewpoint, and instead of studying the city from above, to observe it from the eye level of the human being. The built environment is thus studied as the space for the “life between buildings”, as a lived experience. In human-centered urbanism, the study of the city and the design of its physical form incorporate the social and anthropological dimensions of space.
Linguistic Editors: Triantari, Maria
Graphic Editors: Oikonomou, Evangelia
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 27-06-2023
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9832
Bibliographic Reference: Katsavounidou, G. (2023). The concept of “the city at human scale” [Chapter]. In Katsavounidou, G. 2023. The City at Human Scale [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/9832
Language: Greek
Is Part of: The City at Human Scale