"The quality of a city can be judged by the number of people who *stop* being pedestrians, and decide to sit down for a while."
—Jan Gehl, quoted in #Straphanger
By the way, when I told Jan that North Americans often objected that if you put out benches in public, they’d just be taken up by the unhoused, he replied:
"Then put out twice as many benches!"
#Copenhagen solution
@straphanger (The benches in that picture seem to be hostile anti-homeless architecture, though)
