The Human Dimension in Urban Design- Central Perth
CUSP has been privileged to host a short course with the famous international urban designer Jan Gehl. This has been a very special opportunity to work with one of the world’s greatest urban designers. It has been a partnership project between CUSP, the City of Perth, Department for Planning and Infrastructure (DPI) and Gehl Architects. It means that we have learned a lot but most of all there will be some tangible results at the end of the work. This site is designed to make available to students and the general public the material that was presented by Jan Gehl, Jan Scheurer and Peter Newman as part of the course. It also contains the original study done by Jan Gehl in 1993 and student material as it becomes available on the project.
The work aims to:
1. Learn about the qualities of good urban design.
2. Learn how to measure these qualities and evaluate them against best practice.
3. Gain experience in urban design through team work.
4. Contribute to understanding about what will make a better city centre in Perth.
About the course
The course was run intensively from Monday 20th to Saturday 25th October with data collection occurring on all days and on Tuesday 28th.
Presented by
Professor Jan Gehl, Formerly from Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the author of ‘Life Between Buildings’.
Jan is directing a study of central Perth funded by the City of Perth and the Department of Planning and Infrastructure
which will be a follow up to his 1992 study. Since that time Jan has become a household name in urban design having
completed studies on Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, London and New York.
Professor Jan Gehl presentations from 20-24 October 2008
Perth 1993-2008 Public Spaces and Public Life in Perth [.pdf - 17.48MB]
Perth 4: 20 Oct 08: Cities for People [.pdf - 17.02MB]
Perth 5: 20 Oct 08: Cities for People [.pdf - 18.90MB]
Perth 6: Oct 08: Lively, Attractive and Safe Cities - but how? Cities for people as design challenge [.pdf - 5.04MB]
Public Space and Public Life Perth 2008 [.pdf - 2.02MB]
Dr Jan Scheurer presentations
Walking in Central Melbourne [.pdf - 3.71MB]
Urban Mobility - The Human Dimension [.pdf - 5.61MB]
Professor Peter Newman presentations
Sustainable Urban Transport - Responding to the crash [.pdf - 5.32MB]
