A Few Pedestrian Concerns
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HUBERT MURRAY
is vice president of the Boston Society of Architects and runs an architectural and planning practice in Cambridge. |
By Hubert Murray
“In every city I go to there is a commissioner for traffic and parking,” said the visiting architect and urbanist Jan Gehl last week at Harvard University. “In none, so far as I know, is there a commissioner for pedestrians.” Professor Gehl, now in his 70s, was presenting the wisdom of his 40 years of research and design for major cities around the world but most of all for his beloved Copenhagen.
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