From 'quite awful' to liveable: Urban design guru helps transform Melbourne city

By Clay Lucas
Updated February 10 2017 - 3:08pm, first published February 9 2017 - 4:29pm
Gehl in Sydney, which he says has been badly damaged by high-rise development.  Photo: Steven Siewert
Gehl in Sydney, which he says has been badly damaged by high-rise development. Photo: Steven Siewert
Melbourne City Council's design director Rob Adams, left, with Danish architect and urban designer Jan Gehl on Thursday.  Photo: Penny Stephens
Melbourne City Council's design director Rob Adams, left, with Danish architect and urban designer Jan Gehl on Thursday. Photo: Penny Stephens
Gehl on the streets of another Australian city, Canberra, during a 2015 visit to Australia.  Photo: Rohan Thomson
Gehl on the streets of another Australian city, Canberra, during a 2015 visit to Australia. Photo: Rohan Thomson

Danish architect Jan Gehl has an acute memory of his first visit to Melbourne's city centre in 1976, and it's not flattering.

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