“Why are you architects not interested in people?” Ingrid Gehl asked her new husband, Jan. “What do you think about the fact that your architecture professors take their photos at four o’clock in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cities should be for everyone. Cities should make people healthy and happy. Cities should be designed to respond to human nature and needs. What would a designer who has based his career on those ...

Advocates of bike lanes, shared streets, and walkable cities could take a lesson from their adversaries: If they want to build communities where people, not cars, occupy the pavement, show the ...

When the Danish urban-design guru Jan Gehl visited New York a few years ago, he was struck by how little the city had changed since the 1970s—“as if Robert Moses had only just walked out the door!” ...

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 ...

In March, I took Danish urbanist Jan Gehl for a walk on Market Street from Old City to City Hall. Gehl sees people as the fundamental unit of planning, which leads to a more humanistic approach to ...

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.

Life in today’s mega cities is both tantalizing and troublesome – and by the year 2050, the percentage of the world’s population living in cities will rise from 50 to 80%. Due this growth, the ...

We now know that first, we form the cities, but then the cities form us. Meet 81-year-old Danish architect Jan Gehl who, for more than fifty years, has focused on improving the quality of urban life ...