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Blogpost: In search of modern Hanoi: an identity crisis of a 1,000-year-old city

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...lane way marking its territory on dampened asphalt. Some mobile vendors nimbly move about on foot or by bicycle to deliver goods to their regulars, while others search for eyes...

Blogpost: The Street and the Search for Democracy

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...invite people to walk, take transit or spend time. Given this, what kind of choice are residents left with, in terms of how they travel and move between work, friends’...

Blogpost: Finding Breathing Room in Oakland’s ‘Slow Streets’

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...long term benefits by reducing vehicle emissions – a major source of fine particulate matter pollution in our cities. Improvements in air quality provide benefits for long term public health,...

Blogpost: Gehl Thought: Mega to Small

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...attractive and inclusive town center. Short term vision for Hamnegata. Before and after. Illustration by Gehl. Long term vision for Hamnegata – before and after. Illustration by Gehl. To...

Blogpost: Public Space plays vital role in pandemic

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...these behaviors. Rather, understanding and fulfilling these deep human needs will be critical in the short-term and long-term response to the pandemic. Cities have new opportunities to creatively adapt urban...

Blogpost: Managing Public Space in the ‘New Normal’

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...in the near term to flatten the curve, but planning for the reality that we will still need to maintain some level of physical distancing until a vaccine or effective...

Blogpost: CoRe Foro Urbano CDMX 2016

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...short-term improvements for implementation in the city. Simultaneously, the forum marked the relaunch of Cities for People in Spanish, with Jan Gehl delivering the keynote to the conference, whilst the...

Blogpost: A Living Landscape — #1

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...area, keeping their skills and passions local and maintaining the local diversity. Thinking Long Term Situated on what is now predominantly commercial forestry land on Rothiemurchus, the site is not...

Blogpost: São Paulo pilot projects – behind the scenes

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...quick and low-cost urban interventions, and to test how these transformations affected city life. Testing and monitoring short term helped the City understand and prioritize how to think about long-term...

Blogpost: A city vision with people at the center — #3

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...aim for the Roadmap was to develop a guiding framework that: Provides a long-term vision for the city that can go beyond any political mandate Is flexible enough to adapt...

Blogpost: 春节快乐，万事如意 Happy Chinese New Year!

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...12 months ago, Gehl signed an MoU with long-term partners China Sustainable Transport Centre (CSTC). How has that developed since? The MoU was an important moment for us as it...

News: Intensifying collaboration with Darko Radović in Tokyo

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...his students at co+labo, an Architecture and Urban Design Laboratory in the university. Shortly, David will head to Tokyo once again to be part of co+labo’s Spring Urban Research Pavilion...

Case study: Mobility Concept Design, Vienna, Austria

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After years of inaction, Gehl facilitated short and long term concept designs to improve the Naschmarkt area for people and bicycling, generating consensus amongst stakeholder groups.

Blogpost: Tools for Dialogue

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...will make the whole town more attractive in the long term. The role of the city is to upgrade the network of streets and urban spaces to make the centre...

Blogpost: Testing tactical urbanism for megacities

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...to design professionals to look at the tactics developed by people, for people, within their cities. Tactics are short-term, but they should really be developed with longer-term strategic objectives in...

Blogpost: Public Life, a service

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...collection. Making people visible with public life data The metrics were first developed by Jan Gehl as a research methodology, and later adapted by the Gehl practice into the Public...

Blogpost: Adapting underutilized urban spaces, facilitating “hygge”

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Weekend Trip to Aarhus, Denmark When looking at ways to improve cities, planners and developers have traditionally focused on the longer-term permanent solutions to revitalize urban spaces. There is often...

Case study: Berlin Urban Strategy, Berlin, Germany

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In 2015, Gehl was asked to help Berlin rethink its approach to streets as a public space. With a new ‘Berlin Strategy 2030’ coming into effect, the city wanted to explore how its streets can help progress the city’s inclusiveness, creativity and sustainable ambitions.

Blogpost: How can we reopen safely, swiftly and equitably? Lessons from Mountain View’s Summer StrEATs

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...pilot opening, City staff were juggling multiple concerns and working behind the scenes to connect with all the downtown businesses, reroute buses, move bus stops, provide short term parking, put...

Blogpost: Urban interventions in Mar del Plata

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...realm, as well as specific strategies for short-, medium and long term changes. The team met for weekly workshops, often in my temporary office/ workspace in the old water tower...

Blogpost: Solving local urban problems, in a new way

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...aspirational goals for how to make the city more liveable, connected and vibrant – with some short and mid-term goals for how to get there. One of the pitfalls I’ve...

Blogpost: Bringing Micromobility Equity into Focus

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...from the research, inspiration from the prototyping process, principles of action, and a step-by-step guide for using people-focused design research in equity initiatives. Read on to learn how Spin has...

Blogpost: Homelessness in public space: A toolkit for respectful coexistence

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...homelessness is a multifaceted challenge that requires systemic changes to our economic and social support systems, and could take decades to achieve. This toolkit focuses on providing near-term progress on...

Case study: Urban Strategy & Concept Design, Sydney, Australia

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In 2007, the City of Sydney commissioned Gehl to create an urban strategy to transform the city centre. Central to this plan was a strategy for Sydney’s original main street, George Street, and the city’s central business district. In 2013 the concept design for the area was published - the...

Blogpost: City-making in unprecedented times

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...merely temporary: some of them are true pandemic-induced innovations , likely to stay with us in the long term. New ways of co-designing Successful masterplans emerge from the confluence of...

Case study: Urban Strategy, Chongqing, China

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Over the next 30 years, 300 million people will move to the cities of China. The streets, which have always been the core of Chinese cities and the hub of life, have been replaced from one day to the next with motorways. This implementation of 1960s modernist urban planning has...

Case study: Designing places that invite for new food choices

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Gehl works to design a future where people’s everyday behaviours contribute positively to climate action. Daily food choices are a fundamental part of people’s own health and climate footprint. The food system itself makes up 1/3 of global carbon emissions. To make the healthy and sustainable choice the easy choice,...

Case study: Strategic Plan, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Gehl was hired by the City of Buenos Aires to create the Argentinian capital’s first ever citywide strategic plan. Gehl’s approach to citywide strategic planning focuses on improving people’s quality of life, leverages collaboration between government departments to create shared goals and break through silos, and creates a flexible framework...

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Blogpost: The Loop

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...sustainable and recreational corridor, bringing activity to the ground floor shops along the district’s backside. A series of floating barges along the water, like pearls on a string, will have...

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