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Planetizen – Books on City-Making
Planetizen has released its twelfth annual list of the ten best books in urban planning, design and development published in 2013, and we are happy that “How to Study Public Life” is represented among...
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New ideas for a more Vibrant Winter City
Winter City – Open Air Neightborhood Can the darkness and cold be a potential to create activities in the city during winter time? Often these conditions have been viewed as obstacles for activities,...
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Reflecting on Urban Play in Denmark
A sign declaring, “Please Don’t Touch” sits in front of an indestructible 12 meter tall steel sculpture in Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Oblivious to the warnings, kids run up to play on the...
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People in my city can walk too!
Following on from our Winter Activities posts, we received this fantastic (and real) story from Chicoutimi, Quebec in Canada. Thanks to Sylvie Pilotte for sharing. Something strange happened in my city...
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‘SkyCycle’ in London
Just before, we entered into the new year, Foster + Partners, Exterior Architecture, and Space Syntax presented their spectacular, and maybe utopian, project SkyCycle. A project, which would provide...
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Brussels – a city of cars, Amsterdam – a city of cyclists
By Devon Paige Willis Devon is doing a Masters program called 4Cities, an Erasmus Mundus Masters that takes students from Brussels to Vienna, Copenhagen and Madrid to study cities. Gehl Architects met...
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Masterclass – Tools for Change 2014
TOOLS FOR CHANGE is a whirlwind of learning, talks, working sessions, film screenings, city tours, and other surprises. It is a great way for you to gather tools for creating better ‘cities for...
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Tokyo – Small Scale in Mega City
Six years ago, Gehl Architects traveled to Tokyo on a study trip. Throughout the many planned site visits, meetings and collaborative sessions, we managed to meet Darko Radovic, who recently joined...
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Books to inspire your nights!
In recent weeks, we have found two fantastic books which we thought you might enjoy perusing… For the danish speaking audience, “Københavnerne” is a great read from Pernille Stensgaard on the city of...
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The rise of the suburbs: what will become the future of city-living in...
By Julia SuhArchitect ǀ Urban Strategist, Australia In a suburb called Ilam, only 5 minutes’ drive away from the “red zone” in the earthquake-struck city of Christchurch, lives and works Richard...
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It Takes a Village to Create Transit Oriented Development
HarborPoint in Baltimore. (Graphic: ASG, Baltimore) By Klaus Philipsen, FAIA, Baltimore USA.President ArchPlan, Architect, urban designer, writer.Blog: Community Architect with weekly articles about...
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Former Gas Station fuels Community
Once upon a time, a city’s affluence could be measured by its transportation infrastructure: a constant flow of traffic pulsing along asphalt veins, reaching outwards from the heart of the city was an...
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A sense of urgency and a need for simplicity
In early February, Jan Gehl and I went to Washington DC and New York City to present How to Study Public Life and engage in a conversation and debate about how to create cities for people. It was...
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Evolving Scandinavia
A conversation with Gehl Partner Ewa Westermark and Project Manager Ola Gustafsson on working in a Scandinavian context and the challenges of exporting those valuable learnings around world. Free Zone...
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Winter City Prototype at Frost Festival
Prototype of the Winter City winning project: DAG by Torpe & Kunzynski For the past few months, I have been part of the jury for the Winter City competition, initiated by Frost Festival and Open...
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Life in a suburb – take a second look
Gladsaxe Day, Saturday 24 August 2013, photo: Gladsaxe Kommune The issues of suburbia, the everyday, creating better public spaces for everybody, not only in the city centers, seem more pressing than...
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Face to the Fjord: A look at Oslo on the release of their new PSPL
Gehl Architects’ Public Space Public Life study of Oslo was made public today, March 24, 2014.This ‘special feature #1′ aims to incite dialogue around the challenges and opportunities facing the public...
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More life in the small commuter town of Hjärup, Sweden
Local newspaper ‘Sydsvenskan’ March 19th. Kommunstyrelsens ordförande (Leader of municipal council), Christian Sonesson (M) and Thomas Heinegård, regional manager at Skanska announced the plans for a...
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Design Council – Active by Design
Active by Design, page 7 We have just received word that the Design Council in London have launched Active by Design, their new programme to design places for healthy lives. The first step in their...
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Year of Jan Gehl in Lodz, Poland
The process of developing cities for people can flourish in various ways. In Lodz, Poland, they have nominated 2014 to be “Year of Jan Gehl”, and we are curious to follow the initiatives and the...
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