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SpokesLothian
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Brent Toderian
😍 #JanGehl 90th birthday
Sadly
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
forgot his 2011 call for🚶👩🦼🚲🚌🚊
#PrincesStreet
🙄 Instead: 4 lanes #tarmac
-> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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90th birthday celebration picture for Jan Gehl Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Follow One thing we can never do enough is celebrate our heroes while they’re still with us. Today’s the 90th birthday of the great urbanist Jan Gehl, who started as a hero to me and became a mentor & friend. I’m proud to have been asked to contribute to his celebration messages today. Happy birthday, Jan. 1/2
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Start of Spokes deputation to the Council on Princes St/ George St, referencing Jan Gehl 2011 report Princes Street and Waverley Valley CEC Planning Cttee 9.9.26, agenda item 71 Spokes submission on transport aspects Spokes fundamentally rejects the recommendations in this report. The proposals represent only minor change from those rejected by councillors2 on 12 November 2025, under Cllr Lang’s motion as amended. Their very description as ‘pragmatism’ does not reflect councillors’ request for an “ambitious and exciting strategy.” As regards Princes Street itself, the approach mainly consists of repaving the north footway, and a 1.5m improvement to footway width on the south side, whilst leaving the bulk of the width of Princes Street as a 4-lane transport corridor which, whilst busy at times, is for much of the day mainly an expanse of tarmac. It is not the ‘place’ proposal which has been recommended by experts in urban design, from the Council’s 2011 Jan Gehl report [para 1102 here3] and subsequently, for what is Edinburgh’s premier street, and, indeed, Scotland’s. Gehl recommended4 a place with high pedestrian provision, safe cycling as well as quality public transport. This…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ood4k4wojq5jku2zl3myqco/bafkreicwlrea43r3rpkw4tuug6wpbljoepqcn3hui67ujacquizxi72xfm)
