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Jan Gehl (born 1936) is a Denmark
architect and urban design consultant based in
Copenhagen and whose career has focused on improving the quality of pedestrian urban life.
Gehl received a Masters of Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1960, and practiced architecture from 1960 to 1966. In 1966 he received a research grant from the institution for "studies of the form and use of public spaces," and has since been a lecturer and professor there, and a
Visiting Professor in Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Norway. He is a founding partner of Gehl Architects – Urban Quality Consultants.
As a "young architect working in the suburbs," Gehl married a psychologist and "had many discussions about why the human side of architecture was not more carefully looked after by the architects, landscape architects, and planners... My wife and I set out to study the borderland between sociology, psychology, architecture, and planning."
Gehl first published his influential
Life Between Buildings in Danish in 1971, with the first English translation published in 1987. Gehl advocates a sensible, straightforward approach to improving urban form: systematically documenting urban spaces, making gradual incremental improvements, then documenting them again.
Gehl's book
Public Spaces, Public Life describes how such incremental improvements have transformed
Copenhagen from a car-dominated city to a
pedestrian-oriented city over 40 years. Copenhagen's Strøget carfree zone, the longest pedestrian shopping area in the world, is primarily the result of Gehl's work. Gehl participates in and advises many urban design and public projects around the world. In 2004 he carried out an important study in to the quality of the public realm in London, commissioned by
Transport for London and supported City of Wakefield and the town of Castleford in developing and delivering better public spaces, as part of an initiative known as The Castleford Project.
See also
- New Urbanism
- Public space
- Transit-oriented development
- Urban Design
Selected Publications
- Gehl, J (1987) Life between buildings : using public space, translated by Jo Koch, New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold (ISBN 0442230117)
- Gehl, J. and Gemzøoe, L. (2000) New city spaces, Copenhagen : The Danish Architectural Press (ISBN 877407235)
- Gehl, J. et al (2006) New city life, Denmark : The Danish Architectural Press, 2006 (ISBN 8774073656)
External links
- GEHL Architects, Urban Quality Consultants, Copenhagen
- complete text of "Life Between Buildings" Chapter 1 in English
- The Castleford Project, an innovative urban revitalization program in Yorkshire, UK
- Metropolis Magazine interview with Gehl
- Metropolis Magazine 10-step program for pedestrianizing Copenhagen
Jan Gehl (born 1936) is a Denmark
architect and
urban design consultant based in Copenhagen and whose career has focused on improving the quality of pedestrian urban life.
Gehl received a Masters of Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1960, and practiced architecture from 1960 to 1966. In 1966 he received a research grant from the institution for "studies of the form and use of public spaces," and has since been a lecturer and professor there, and a Visiting Professor in Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Norway. He is a founding partner of Gehl Architects – Urban Quality Consultants.
As a "young architect working in the suburbs," Gehl married a psychologist and "had many discussions about why the human side of architecture was not more carefully looked after by the architects, landscape architects, and planners... My wife and I set out to study the borderland between sociology, psychology, architecture, and planning."
Gehl first published his influential
Life Between Buildings in Danish in 1971, with the first English translation published in 1987. Gehl advocates a sensible, straightforward approach to improving urban form: systematically documenting urban spaces, making gradual incremental improvements, then documenting them again.
Gehl's book
Public Spaces, Public Life describes how such incremental improvements have transformed
Copenhagen from a car-dominated city to a pedestrian-oriented city over 40 years. Copenhagen's
Strøget carfree zone, the longest pedestrian shopping area in the world, is primarily the result of Gehl's work. Gehl participates in and advises many urban design and public projects around the world. In 2004 he carried out an important study in to the quality of the public realm in London, commissioned by
Transport for London and supported City of Wakefield and the town of Castleford in developing and delivering better public spaces, as part of an initiative known as The Castleford Project.
See also
Selected Publications
- Gehl, J (1987) Life between buildings : using public space, translated by Jo Koch, New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold (ISBN 0442230117)
- Gehl, J. and Gemzøoe, L. (2000) New city spaces, Copenhagen : The Danish Architectural Press (ISBN 877407235)
- Gehl, J. et al (2006) New city life, Denmark : The Danish Architectural Press, 2006 (ISBN 8774073656)
External links
- GEHL Architects, Urban Quality Consultants, Copenhagen
- complete text of "Life Between Buildings" Chapter 1 in English
- The Castleford Project, an innovative urban revitalization program in Yorkshire, UK
- Metropolis Magazine interview with Gehl
- Metropolis Magazine 10-step program for pedestrianizing Copenhagen
Jan Gehl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan Gehl (born 1936) is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen and whose career has focused on improving the quality of pedestrian urban life.
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