The Human Scale
The Human Scale This blog is based on the video film "The Human Scale' by Andreas M. Dalsgaard and presented by 'Final Cut for Real'. The architect Jan Gehl has studied and written about cities for people for 40 years. I came across this video through my Urban Studies class and was so moved by it that I couldn't waste the opportunity to write about it. This blog will just be a narration of the video and nothing more. The lines and quotes in the movie are really inspiring so might as well help me remember if I write them here. You could watch the video to relate to it on a much different level. It's available on YouTube under the name 'The Human Scale'. Imagine a science fiction film in a cold distant Urban landscape. Imagine that we live in that future right now. The mega city is the reality, giga cities are soon to be. Amidst this cold bleak vision of the future, we have the human being. It doesn't fit the cliche of modernity. It is personal, wa