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How does living in a city contribute to health and well-being?
Several noted physicians, including Ian Robers, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have claimed that in the 21st century architects and...
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IFHP Melbourne Study Tour – join us!
Gehl Architects along with the City of Melbourne are supporting the IFHP Study Tour to Melbourne from 12-15 March. The tour will illuminate how Melbourne transformed itself from a dull and lifeless...
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Densification is the key
Helle Søholt participated at the London Assembly Committee Meeting (Planning coverage) January 15 and her contribution really got the attention of the members. Alex Csicsek, Planning Researcher at...
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Interview
Read here an interview with Gehl Architects’ Simon Goddard and Rob Adams, Director of Design and urban environment for City of Melbourne, on the unique qualities of Melbourne and the challenges this...
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‘The Human Scale’ rolls out across Denmark
Andreas M. Dalsgaard’s ‘The Human Scale’ is set to roll out across Denmark as part of DOX:BIO. This is an excellent opportunity to see the film if you have not already done so.Catch it in… GRAND...
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Understanding Livability
We are excited to learn about the new statistics for Nørrebrogade, the corridor in central Copenhagen, that has been undergoing a process of mobility rethinking since 2008. Car traffic has been reduced...
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Understanding local uniqueness
Photo of local city staff utilize the Gehl Methodology to observe and record how public space in the City is used. Gehl Architects has just recently started up a new project in Mar del Plata,...
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Mighty Mouse: Can Small Cities be Global Cities?
Livable. Strategic. International. It seems like a predictable law of physics; the cities with the greatest gravity in the urban universe are some of the largest. Tokyo, New York, Paris, London, and...
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Trainee Week
p style=”text-align:center;”> This week I have been a trainee student at Gehl Architects where I learned to work in Photoshop, I have been to lectures and worked with different assignments. Working...
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THE FUTURE OF OUR CITIES?
The University of Gent had asked Prof. dr. Jurgen Randers, professor of climate strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School and author of the latest Report to the Club of Rome, “2052-A Global...
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Red Deer Mobility Playbook
Gehl Architects in collaboration with 8-80 Cities have just completed a ‘Mobility Playbook’ for the City of Red Deer, Canada. Red Deer is a city of around 100,000 people located in the Petroleum...
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The welcoming winter city of Skellefteå
Gehl Architects went to Skellefteå in North Sweden and did a workshop with representatives from the municipality, politicians and local businesses. With this entusiastic group it was an exciting time,...
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Light, Place, and Spatial Design
Moving between places, a question emerges: what is unique to a place? Light is cast by the sun onto a round, orbiting planet. Changes in latitude and atmosphere grossly determine local light...
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Is a more fearless city possible? – reflections from Buenos Aires
A neighbourhood street in Palermo Viejo Project manager at Gehl Architects, Louise Vogel Kielgast, has spent the past 3 and a-half months in Buenos Aires. Aside from appreciating the very unique urban...
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The Human Scale, part of Hot Docs in Toronto
The documentary, The Human Scale, has been selected for the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto and will be screened several times in May. If you happen to find yourself in Toronto, we invite you to go and...
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What could an urban space to die in look like?
As part of our knowledge sharing we are always invited to bring new ideas or pop-up thoughts to the table at our ‘Thursday Lunch Meetings’. Recently Louise motivated reflections on reverse questions...
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Friday Fun April 25th
Hello everyone and happy Copenhagen spring time! We kick off one day early due to tomorrows national holiday here in DK Inspired by all the smiling faces I met biking to work this morning, this weeks’...
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Friday Fun May 3rd
Happy Friday! This week we go art! I stumbled upon this really interesting article about Eco Visualization: Aesthetics for sustainability. Eco-visualizations place the use of resources in the lives of...
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The library as public space
Many Danish cities are currently redeveloping their libraries or building new ones. The library is no longer a house of books, but a framework for learning, for new as well as old knowledge – both...
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‘How to Study Public Life’ – new book coming out!
If you find yourself in Copenhagen these days, you might have noticed that people are behaving a little bit differently. It seems as if more people are smiling, holding their heads up a little higher,...
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