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Friday Fun July 12 – the festival edition
The festival season is upon us and summer has finally arrived to Copenhagen. The city, the citizens and visitors have already experienced a great number of festivals, such as Distortion Festival,...
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Moscow
In the next few weeks Gehl Architects’ Public Space Public Life study of Moscow, which focuses on the central districts of Moscow City will be made public. As a lead-up to this release we will issue a...
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Moving St. Petersburg on a Bicycle
All over the world we witness cities changing, we see issues of bikeability becoming the center of attention, but it’s not always driven by a sustainability discourse as many would expect. This was...
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The festival edition part II
Two weeks after Roskilde Festival I returned to the city to participate in one of the latest additions to the many Danish summer festivals; Henry’s Dream. The festival was set in the area Musicon, a...
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Cities for People sale
This week you can buy Cities for People on sale from the publisher, Island Press. Click here for more details!
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Summer Snapshots
After a summer with a lot of sun, which is still shining strongly here in Copenhagen, we are back recharged and ready to get back to work (full speed) with cities all over the world. Here are some...
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The Design of an Interaction.
When you eat your breakfast in the morning, do you slurp through your coffee while dressing yourself (or someone you love) and chomp down your toast on your way out the door? Or are you one of those...
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Student-run Pilot Projects in Lisbon
Students cleaning up a project site in Graca. The designed intervention will be implemented on Sunday 18th. If anyone visits Lisbon in the next couple of weeks, they should be sure to venture into the...
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Friday Fun
We were whispering. We were trying to be very quiet. But every few minutes, one of them would explode. It was very dark in the courtyard. Stine was out on the scaffolding, untangling ribbons and...
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More China
Last week Gehl Architects once again visited China to follow up on new and old projects together with our local partner the China Sustainable Cities Program at The Energy Foundation. The visit offered...
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New Publication – Urban Voices
Urban Voices – Celebrating Urban Design in Australia is now available from Urban Design Forum. Urban Voices reflects on urban design in Australia over the past 25 years as we confront the challenges...
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The Future is Human
Kultorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark Is the human future timeless? A compelling essay by our very own David Sim for the The Huffington Post in association with TEDxKalamata’s conference. “If we want to...
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‘Cidades Para Pessoas’ book launch in Sao Paulo, Brazil
We are happy to announce that Cities For People by Jan Gehl is now out in portuguese. August 22 the book was officially launched at Livraria Bookstore at the Architectural Institute in Sao Paulo and...
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Public Space Transformation in Saint Petersburg
Exciting initiatives are emerging in Russia. Last week, Henriette Vamberg was in Saint Petersburg in connection with the project ‘The City SAGA. Public Spaces in Transformation’ which aims to...
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A Chicago for the Future
(Photo: Kasey Klimes) “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” - Daniel Burnham, Author of “The Plan for Chicago”, 1909 For over a...
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The Human Scale and the Future of our Civilisation
Split, Croatia The future is bright the future is ‘smart’, it might be smart but we must make sure its human and humane! The UrbanIxD advisory board gathered in Split Croatia last Sunday night for an...
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The Design of an Interaction
When you eat your breakfast in the morning, do you slurp through your coffee while dressing yourself (or someone you love) and chomp down your toast on your way out the door? Or are you one of those...
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Moscow 2
Gehl Architects’ Public Space Public Life study of Moscow, which focuses on the central districts of Moscow City was made public on July 16. This ‘special report #2′ is the second of 3 posts which...
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Flex Parking!
The City of Copenhagen recently introduced flex bike/car parking and we though we should share… Bike during the day, car at night. Nice!
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