Danish urban designer, Jan Gehl, author of the report Place for People, 10 years ago is back in Melbourne. Apparently, he sees a remarkable improvement in the quality of life in the city. The Age article lacked any sort of detail, but there is a free public lecture on:

Tuesday, 3 February, 6pm
Lecture Theatre, Storey Hall, RMIT

As a primer, there was an interview with Jan Gehl talking about pedestrian cities, in Metropolis Magazine in 2002.

Urban Design 1st February, 2004 13:51:52   [#] 

Comments

Very excited guy
Russ, a great find, an interesting sounding person, in our world of seeing that the place we live in is more liveable. Lisa.
Lisa  1st February, 2004 18:50:00  

junk for code
Russell,
will the Gehl lecture being going online?
Gary Sauer-Thompson  20th February, 2004 05:28:49  

Re: lecture
Hi Gary,
I don't know. It was the City of Melbourne running it, rather than RMIT, so they are probably less interested in keeping a record. I'll ask around the university though, if it was taped it should be somewhere.
Russell  22nd February, 2004 13:25:06  

Mr.
England won the rugby and we will win the ashes. Nice city, melbourne.
Edwards  28th October, 2004 01:32:21  

tuesday or thusrday
the 3rd of Feb is a Thursday and not Tuesday.
When is the lecture.??
student  31st January, 2005 16:11:29  

Tuesday
The original post is also in 2004 :-)
You missed it I'm afraid, it was quite good though.
Russ  31st January, 2005 23:08:27  

2004-2005 same, same
Ha Ha Ha
I just missed it, huh?
Well, I know that Jan Gehl is in Melbourne NOW and was hoping to go to one of his lectures since i helped out with one of his research projects in Melb.
student  2nd February, 2005 11:58:40  

Google is no help
I did a search for you - no doubt you have already. But the only reference to any lectures was the EcoEdge Conference. Which looks very interesting in a very expensive kind of way.

If you find anything let us know. He is a very engaging speaker.
Russ  2nd February, 2005 19:27:57