While visiting New York this week for the American publication of his latest book “Cities for People”–a kind of manual for making walkable cities–Jan Gehl invited me to sit with him in Bryant Park to ...

On Friday, urban planner Jan Gehl visited downtown Brooklyn, leading a tour that stopped at Metrotech, Fulton Mall, Atlantic Terminal Mall, and Atlantic Center Mall. As for his verdict on Bruce Ratner ...

Sidewalk Labs built an app to automate the tedious data collection involved in public life studies--while still keeping humans in the loop. The little-known behavioral scientist who transformed cities ...

The Oculus book talk on the new book, How to Study Public Life, at the Center for Architecture with Jan Gehl and his co-author Birgitte Svarre was like seeing the documentary The Human Scale come to ...

A talk given by Jan Gehl, the profanity-loving Danish urban planner, cult figure and rarely recognized inspiration behind the pedestrian plazas A talk given by Jan Gehl, the profanity-loving Danish ...

Three generations, one bike. Photo by Flickr user 16nine, Creative Commons license. Jan Gehl and his wife, who have been married 45 years, regularly ride their bikes 15 miles or more to get dinner.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cities of the world designed to be "instant capitals" like Canberra all share the same flaw of being "over scale", as if they're created ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. When Danish architect Jan Gehl found himself working as a guest ...

When two of the world’s top urban designers drop in for a visit and come away with the impression that your city — in this case Minneapolis — is a relic of the 1970s, ill-equipped to thrive and ...

Danish architect and urban planning expert Jan Gehl has traveled the world advising the city councils of some of the most overpopulated, traffic-heavy, concrete jungles on how to treat their ...

Jan Gehl (born 17 September 1936, Copenhagen) is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city ...