![]() I can also tell you another thing: in 1962, a year after her book came out, the city council in Copenhagen closed one kilometer of the main street and turned it into a car-free street. They were reacting to the motor car invasion. And what was overlooked was how all this influenced people’s lives. ![]() We looked at that and thought: there’s something wrong here, something must have been overlooked. We were incensed to see how traffic was ruining the cities and how insensitive architects and planners were putting up suburbs and modernistic residential areas in concrete blocks. My wife and I had started to study how the built form influenced people’s behavior. But her book was highly inspiring, especially in relation to my research. ![]() I only learned to know fear in 1972, when I visited North America for the first time. I can remember my enormous surprise that the first chapter was on sidewalk safety, because that was not an issue in this part of Europe at that time. ![]()
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