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Jan Gehl at 80
— October 10, 2016
For Jan Gehl, 2016 marks a remarkable milestone – 50 years of research and dedication to improving public life and ...
US Election – Reflections on Public Life
As the reality that Donald Trump would become the next American president began to sink in on the morning of November 9th, ...
DAC CONFERENCE
Birgitte Bundesen Svarre
Nov 24, 2016
Copenhagen, Denmark
Designing for Smart Citizens
More info here
To measure impact is to make impact
Photo: Nordea-fonden Institutions, foundations and organisations are increasingly interested in creating the right ...
News
For Jan Gehl, 2016 marks a remarkable milestone – 50 years of research and dedication to improving public life and ...
Changing Cities in 5 Steps
— September 21, 2016
The exhibition ’Changing Cities in 5 steps’ will open at the Danish Cultural Center in Beijing as part of Design ...
Copenhagen Ruined my San Francisco Commute
Any cyclist who’s been to Copenhagen will tell you that the city seems almost painfully utopian. It has rich street ...
Talks
DAC CONFERENCE
Birgitte Bundesen Svarre
Nov 24, 2016
Copenhagen, Denmark
Designing for Smart Citizens
More info here
RSAW Annual Conference
Allison Dutoit
Urban Expert
Dec 2, 2016
Cardiff, Wales
The Gehl Approach - Keynote Speech
More info here
New book honours Jan Gehl
— September 14, 2016
“Jan´s path-breaking work on public spaces, urban liveability, and sociability of cities stands at the forefront of ...
VIVA forum
Esben Neander Kristensen
Project Manager
Dec 6, 2016
Medellin, Columbia
Cities for People
Changing Cities in 5 Steps
China is undergoing the fastest urbanization known to man. In the next 10 years an additional 300 million people are ...
Pokémon Go – Kids learning about cities
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have at least heard about Pokémon Go. The app combining augmented reality and ...
Gehl named as curator for Washington, DC initiative
— August 15, 2016
Gehl was named as one of several curators for 'Crossing the Street: Building DC’s Inclusive Future through Creative ...
Seminar: The Liveable City
Riccardo Marini
Urban Expert
Nov 8, 2016
Glasgow, Scotland
Masterplanning & Sustainable Urban Development
past event
More info here
University of Sydney
Henriette Vamberg
Managing Director
Nov 8, 2016
Sydney, Australia
Cities for People
past event
More info here
Carmel – evolving the American dream
As urbanists living and working in the US, we frequently encounter the stark contrasts between suburban and urban ...
Jan Gehl on Person Place Thing
— July 26, 2016
On the latest episode of the New York based radio show Person Place Thing, Randy Cohen features Jan Gehl! In this ...
City Street 2
Camilla van Deurs
Partner
Nov 9, 2016
Beirut, Lebanon
Transforming 21st Century Streets
past event
Venue: Notre Dame University Louaize Main Campus
More info here
Gehl Institute empowers American Communities in People-first Design
— July 11, 2016
New Institute, leadership to provide the tools necessary for cities to design more inviting, economically vibrant public ...
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Attaining Gehl Effect
In October we began rolling-out our 2016–2019 strategy — Gehl Effect. To keep us on track we’ve created a navigation tool, a little book, meant to synchronize the Gehl team, and move us towards the common goal of achieving the ‘Gehl Effect’ — making a better everyday life for all people.
‘Gehl Effect’ is built on four key ambitions:
Go up
Make sure our strategies and plans reach the policy level in cities by collaborating with Gehl Institute to achieve this.
Go deeper
Bring about change through active engagement and ultimately change in behavior towards lively streets, healthy lifestyles and active mobility.
Go down
Implement our approach, strategies and plans to get projects designed, tested and built.
Multiply
Train others to become ‘Gehl Multipliers’ and advocates for the Gehl People First approach.
We invite you to get familiar with the key areas of our new strategy, all while getting to know Gehl a little better!
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Making Cities for People
Our team is growing, as is our commitment to changing the paradigm of planning and design, towards cities that are made for people. Reach out to our team of ‘people first’ leaders in Copenhagen, San Francisco and New York City – three offices, one mission exemplified in our tagline: Making Cities for People.
People are our inspiration. They are at the core of our practice, at the heart of how we plan and design. It’s because of people that the Gehl team collaborates with public and private enterprises to make cities that are plural, alive, and abundant with choice. Gehl is people, so we took the decision, to move to: gehlpeople.com.
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Announcing the expansion of ‘Gehl Institute’
We’re pleased to announce that we are formally expanding the work of Gehl Institute, which was launched last year with support from the Knight Foundation. The Institute is a public charity and non-profit organization that will operate out of New York City. Gehl Institute shares the same ambition and vision as Gehl – that cities are truly made for people and the needs of people should be at the center of planning, design and the making of our urban environment.
Ten years ago, Jan Gehl and I initiated what was at first ‘Gehl Research’, a small team within the Gehl office in Copenhagen. At the time, Jan had just turned 70 and was recently named Professor Emeritus at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where he had been leading the Centre for Public Space Research for 3 years, and the Department of Urban Design for more than 3 decades. To help ensure the public life research that Jan had carried out through his entire life would continue – and grow – in the future, we agreed to start a small research and learning entity. Since then, Gehl Research has initiated exciting initiatives like Gehl Talks (keynote addresses), published two books – ‘Cities for People’ and ‘How to Study Public Life,’ with great support from Realdania in Denmark – and built a knowledge exchange platform in Copenhagen, using our office as cultural institute. We receive groups of visitors from all over the world who are interested in our methods, our projects and Copenhagen as our urban laboratory.
Looking to the Future
Building on the success of Gehl Research, Gehl Institute aims to grow what is most important – new knowledge about cities and the relationship between ‘the life of the city & the built form in which it takes place’.
To enable Gehl Institute as a vehicle for urban research and action oriented ‘intervention studies’, and by sharing the Gehl methods, we continue to build on the legacy of the public life studies and books of Jan Gehl as well as the experience and tools developed by Gehl as an urban design and consultancy company.
In the coming years, the role of Gehl Institute will be to enable a scaling up and deepening of our urban research in the field of ‘public life’ and in particular, how the urban environment influence people’s behavior, attitudes, health and well-being. The Institute wants to develop a deeper understanding of how places in cities and neighborhoods can support social resiliency, public health, connections between people and issues of equality and accessibility.
We look forward to having Gehl Institute build new strong partnerships with other American and international foundations as the need for humanizing cities globally has never been deeper than now with the social, economic and environmental challenges the cities are facing today.
— Helle Søholt, CEO and Founding Partner
Learn more about Gehl Institute here
Act Urban convening
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Jan Gehl: 50 years researching public space and public life! – summer masterclass
This is Jan Gehl’s Anniversary Year! Jan has been inspiring us to create cities for people for 50 years. Wow! We’re celebrating with a life-changing masterclass in Copenhagen between the 24th and 26th of August.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
Day 1 – Getting to Know Gehl
Talks & guest talk, case studies, in conversation sessions, urban safari, film screening & dinner
Gehl team: Jan Gehl, David Sim, Henriette Vamberg and Birgitte Bundesen Svarre + guest speaker Tina Saaby.
Day 2 – Investigating the City
Guest talk, case studies, in conversation sessions & bicycle tour
Gehl team: Jan Gehl, David Sim, Camilla van Deurs, Andreas Røhl and Lars Gemzøe + guest speaker Klaus Bondam.
Day 3 – Urban Visions & Change
Talks, case studies, in conversation sessions & evening reception
Gehl team: Jan Gehl, Helle Søholt, David Sim, Jeff Risom, Blaine Merker and Kristian Villadsen.
THE MASTERCLASS TEAM
GUEST SPEAKERS
COST
Euros € 2000 + 25% VAT
– includes a light breakfast & lunch for all three days and dinner on the first evening.
REGISTRATION
To register and pay go to Eventbrite
If you have any questions please e-mail us at masterclass@gehlpeople.com
Top photo credit: Markus Reichenbach
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Year of the Monkey
“It is ironic that we know more about the habitat of mountain gorillas, than we do about the habitat of people.”
… says Jan Gehl. The Year of the Monkey seems like a good time to change this.
Gehl has been studying the habitat of people in Chinese cities for the past 8 years.
The aim, to shift towards a more ‘people-oriented development’.
On Nanjing Lu East in Shanghai we found that 95% of movement is pedestrian,
but 85% of the space is given to cars.
In 2016 we hope to see Nanjing Lu improved for people!
扬·盖尔先生说：“我们对人类自身习性的了解还不如对大猩猩习性的了解，这是多么讽刺的事。”
猴年应该是改变这一窘境的好时机。盖尔事务所在过去八年来一直致力于研究中国城市居民的习性。我们的
目标是使中国城市朝着更加以人为本的方向发展。
在上海的南京东路上，我们研究发现95%的道路使用者是行人，而85%的道路空间却分配给了机动车。在
2016年，我们希望看到南京路为行人进行提升改造。
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Gehl 15 / Anniversary Edition
Enjoy our annual report for 2014-15, a compilation of many exciting Gehl goodies!
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Gehl Studio
Gehl Studio is the US based practice of Gehl Architects, with offices in San Francisco and New York. The Studio team is engaged with clients and projects within all the Gehl Services from Canada, the US, Latin and South America. Having established Studios in the US has enabled us to do more of what we love most, to work face to face and on a daily basis with our local clients and collaborators. We are able to jointly tackle and prioritize the needs of people in the planning and design of cities, districts, communities, streets and spaces, to make a bigger impact and to go further in the design process.
Gehl Team
At Gehl, we strongly believe that the success of the projects that we undertake with our clients and collaborators is dependent on the right team, a group that is dynamic, talented, from varying backgrounds, and who shares the values and ambitions of creating ‘cities for people’.
This is why we have an exceptional group of people, who joined our offices at Gehl Studio San Francisco and Gehl Studio New York. These Studios also draw from the experience and talent of our Copenhagen office, enabling tailored teams with specific skills to be formed on a project-by-project basis.
Gehl Studio is led by Jeff Risom out of Copenhagen. John Bela and Blaine Merker joined from Rebar Art and Design Studio, bringing with them their leadership, expertise and innovation from Parking Day to temporary pilots and early activation projects around the world. Matthew Lister leads our New York office.
Learn more …
– Get in touch with one of our Studio offices here.
– Learn about our US team here.
– Find out where we are located in San Francisco and New York here.
*Gehl Studio is a Gehl Architects company
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Gehl is expanding
A few of the Gehl Studio colleagues in Copenhagen
Gehl Architects has called Copenhagen home for over 14 years. During that time our team has flown around the world, working on ever-more complex, global projects that have always aimed to create ‘cities for people’.
Now we’d like to broaden the Gehl reach, to expand the research and people-first approach, to influence design and urbanism in a more focused and local way, so that we can continue to improve people’s everyday quality of life by working more closely with our international clients and collaborators.
It’s the right time
We all know that our world is urbanizing at an accelerated pace. With this expansion our cities are increasingly plagued by well-known issues – aging populations, lifestyle diseases, affordability, congestion, safety, among many other topics.
Adapting to these changes while ensuring global growth exerts an extraordinary pressure on the daily city goer’s life and on the people who manage cities. This is why we aim to work with our clients and collaborators on transitioning from focusing on concrete and steel (hardware of cities) to responding to daily human experiences and needs (software of cities) so that our behavior, habits and lifestyle can shape our urban future and ensure that everyone has access to a better quality of life.
Gehl Studio
These are some of the reasons why we’ve decided to open Gehl Studio San Francisco and Gehl Studio New York.
Having Studios in the US will enable Gehl to exponentially do what we love most, to work face to face and on a daily basis with our local clients and collaborators. We’ll be able to jointly tackle and prioritize the needs of people in the planning and design of cities, districts, communities, streets and spaces, to make a bigger impact and to go further in the design process.
Gehl Team
At Gehl, we strongly believe that the success of the projects that we undertake with our clients and collaborators is dependent on the right team, a group that is dynamic, talented, from varying backgrounds, and who shares the values and ambitions of creating ‘cities for people’. This is why we have invited an exceptional group of people to join Gehl Studio San Francisco and Gehl Studio New York. These Studios will also draw from the experience and talent of our Copenhagen office, enabling tailored teams with specific skills to be formed on a project-by-project basis.
One very exciting piece of news is that John Bella and Blaine Merker have joined Gehl Studio San Francisco from Rebar Art and Design Studio, bringing with them their leadership, expertise and innovation from Parking Day to temporary pilots and early activation projects around the world.
As you can tell, the Gehl expansion has us very excited!
Learn more…
Get in touch with one of our Studio offices here.
Learn about our US team here.
Find out where we are located in San Francisco and New York here.
* Gehl Studio San Francisco and Gehl Studio New York are part of the Gehl Architects family.