‘Gazeta’ newspaper in action
Announcing of Jan Gehl’s lecture in ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ newspaper.
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‘Lublin for people’ press conference
Post użytkownika Lublin dla ludzi.
The 25th of September 2014 – Zielony Talerzyk restaurant held a meeting with journalists about the coalition of projects for the Lublin Citizen Budget “Lublin for people”. This way the poster, website and facebook profile were joined by a press conference, which has closed the start of the coalition in the media.
Historic words of Mayor Krzysztof Żuk
The 23th of September 2014 – ‘we reach ouf for high caliber arguments, in order to change the city in a way that standards that of such cities as Copenhagen would be considered in planning and implementation of various investments and in the revitalization of the Downtown’ – said Krzysztof Żuk, Mayor of Lublin, during a press conference at te Cultural Center, to which he invited Marta Kurowska, Jan Kamiński and Marcin Skrzypek, so they could talk about the Year of Jan Gehl in Lublin and the project ‘City for people. Lublin pedestrian infrastructure standards’ inspired by the ideas of Jan Gehl. Więcej
City against the people?
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The 23 of September 2014 – Gazeta Wyborcza have published a conversation between Małgorzata Domagała and an architect and anthropologist Anna Rumińska from Wrocław, under a strongly-sounding title: ‘We care about cars, not pedestrians’. Someone commented it on Twitter: ‘City against the people’. It might sound harsh, even shocking, but at the same time it’s accurate and revealing. Więcej
How to talk about a city for people?
The 19th of September 2014 – another edition of ‘Gehl thinking’ in an article by Sylwia Hejno in ‘Kurier Lubelski’. Paulina Zarębska-Denysiuk in the Little Academy of Design speaks about it simply and extremely precise.
‘Who is Jan Gehl’ – Start of the Little Academy of Design at the Royal Tribunal
The 11th of September 2014 – a presentation entitled ‘Who is Jan Gehl’ made by Marcin Skrzypek, inauguration the Little Academy of Design by the Lublin Society of Encouragement of Fine Arts ‘Zachęta’ at the Royal Tribunal – as well as a provocative, another opening of the Year of Jan Gehl.
The benches themselves found the way to where they should have been :-)
Pedestrian Lublin comments: during the Jagiellonian Fair festival the benches that were placed on the sunny side of the promenade on Krakowskie Przedmieście Street have ‘wandered’ to other spots, including the front of Krakowska Gate, a popular meeting place. When will benches appear in every place that needs them and will there be enough of them? Więcej
The aesthetics of sidewalks after the renovation of Narutowicza Street
Pedestrian Lublin comments the questionable esthetic result of the renovation of Narutowicza Street. Więcej
A letter promoting the use of resistance thresholds on parking spots
1st of Agust 2014. According to the plans of Lublin Housing Cooperative (LSM) of building parking lots on Wallendroda Street, Council for Culture of Space sent a letter to LSM and other large estates’ offices in Lublin with an idea of mounting resistance thresholds to prevent cars from parking on sidewalks. Więcej
The independent life of memes ‘city for people’ and ‘common space’
Two media information contained in this post are about actions not directly related to the Year of Jan Gehl, but both of them include the phrase ‘a city for people’, used as an evaluating category. These are signs that the idea of ‘a city for people’ has a change of an independent life in people’s imagination. Więcej