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December 1, 2005

Danish Architect Weighs in on Ratner Project

GehlBDStar.psdBrooklyn Downtown Star coverage of Jan Gehl's walk through Metrotech and the Atlantic Yards site:

The problem with developers in general, Gehl concluded, is that they sometimes over-scale projects, planning on elephant or dinosaur scale, rather than on human scale.

"For several million years people have not been much bigger," he said, but urban developments are forever growing.

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Posted by lumi at December 1, 2005 6:52 AM