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Based on the work of famed architect and urban planner Jan Gehl and his visionary work transforming urban environments from traffic-congested streets and cold urban landscapes into havens for people and real human interaction. Gehl has been leading a revolution in urban planning that has been transforming cities worldwide. From the expanded pedestrian spaces in New York's Times Square, to Copenhagen's famed bike lanes, to the rebuilding of earthquake devastated Christchurch New Zealand, Gehl's team bring real solutions that promise a more humanistic dimension to cities where people are not displaced by congested streets, skyscrapers, and the car-centric urbanism of the 1960s and '70s. Andreas Dalsgaard's stunningly photographed film travels around the world to explore how Gehl's vision of a human megacity--intimate, lively, safe, sustainable and healthy--is being implemented in cities around the world.

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• Timely and celebrated documentary about integrating climate change into architectural design
• For fans of ABSTRACT: THE ART OF DESIGN and THE WORLD'S MOST EXTRAORDINARY HOMES

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No [other] documentary I've seen about city planning has come at the topic from such a resolutely humanistic perspective, or given me more hope for the future

     —J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

The optimistic documentary The Human Scale suggests: If you make more space for people, you get more public life [and] outlines a number of successful transformations

     —Chris Knight, National Post

The gospel of Gehl Architects [point of view sincere] guides this film's vision of cities that encourage human interaction

     —David DeWitt, New York Times