Gehl - Making Cities for People

Moving people efficiently from A to B has always been one of the greatest challenges facing cities. 🏙️ In Europe, you’ll find a whole spectrum of mobility systems and solutions that we rely on to go about our daily routines. 🚌 🚲 We interviewed Andreas Roehl, Mobility Lead at Gehl, to uncover insights into the contemporary mobility environment, and why this great challenge remains. 💡 Find the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/dzDgbdDN #gehl #gehlpeople #mobility #transport #urbanmobility

It was a pleasure to meet His Excellency Mayor Fahad Al-Belaihshi in Madinah again last week. The Gehl team spent an immersive week exploring the city’s nature, neighborhoods, and monuments, deepening our understanding of its evolving urban landscape. 🇸🇦🌆 We discussed how Madinah’s living heritage, its artists, craftspeople, farmers, and residents, can shape the future while honoring the past. By enhancing everyday quality of life, the city is strengthening its identity as a global model for sustainable urbanism and resilient public spaces, while preparing to welcome 30 million visitors annually by 2030. 💫 Under the Mayor’s leadership, bold initiatives are creating a thriving, inclusive, and future-ready city — where urban design, research, and policy work together to build long-term resilience. 🤝 Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this vision and to be part of inspiring conversations that push the boundaries of what’s possible. Exciting work ahead! 🚀 #gehlpeople #madinah #saudiarabia #sustainableurbanism #publicspaces #futurecities

🌟 Interested in shaping cities for people? 🌟 Join our team in New York or San Francisco! We’re seeking curious and motivated recent graduates or final-year master’s students in fields related to design and urban behavior. If you’re passionate about people-first urbanism, this is your chance to join us for a three-month, full-time paid internship this summer. What we offer: ✨ High-profile, unique, and varied projects ✨ Real client interaction ✨ Potential for internship extension ✨ Paid opportunity ⏳ Don’t wait — apply by February 28th! Submit your application now with this link: https://lnkd.in/duu3ZKF5 📩 #citiesforpeople #internship #newyorkinternships #sanfranciscointernships #urbandesign #architecture

With decades of experience studying the natural movement of people through cities, Urban Mobility is one of Gehl’s core competencies. We drive healthy, sustainable urban transformations that enhance everyday quality of life, foster public health, and improve access to public spaces. 🌍 This month, we’re highlighting Gehl’s projects on mobility. To celebrate Lunar New Year, we’re starting with a project in Shanghai. 🐍🇨🇳 Project: Shanghai Street Design Guidelines Client: City of Shanghai, Shanghai Urban Planning and Development Research Institute (SHUPDRI) Year: 2016 Location: Shanghai, China  Services: Urban Design & Masterplanning Project scale: Street Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dgRY97Ts #urbanmobility #mobility #shanghai #publicspace #lunarnewyear #urbandesign #urbantransformation

Cities have the potential to shape the way we live and encourage behaviors that scale climate action. In the next 15 years, we need to embrace a new urban behaviors — from adopting plant-based diets to choosing zero-emission transport like walking and cycling. 🌱 🚲 To unlock this potential, we need to create spaces where culture, infrastructure, and desire align to make new behaviors not just possible, but irresistibly easy and enjoyable. This requires designing environments that nudge us toward change.🚶♀️💡 #gehlpeople #sustainablecities #urbaninnovation #climateaction #humancentereddesign #citiesforpeople #climatesolutions

Gehl is thrilled to have been involved in the public kick-off event for the Perth Towards 2036 project. 🎉 Despite busy schedules before the summer break, City of Perth staff and surveyors gained some valuable insights into how the central city is used, and they also had a lot of fun in the process! We witnessed incredible number of people of all ages and backgrounds visiting the city — a tribute to all the activation and events planning efforts around the city. 🇦🇺 We also had the privilege of working alongside long-term Gehl expert surveyors Brett Wood-Gush and Barbara Meldrum, who also contributed to the 1993 and 2009 survey studies. City of Perth staff completed the final round of Public Space Public Life surveys last week, and the observational fun continued with ice cream breaks and sunny picnics by the riverfront. ☀️ Thanks to Amanda Mannolini, Venesa Viskovich, Jamie Lowen, and the City of Perth team for an amazing effort and a great first trip for Gehl. We look forward to sharing the insights from the survey work soon! 💡

The ability to live a healthy life is the ongoing balance between stressors put on us and resources made available to us, our socioeconomic conditions, and the environments we experience every day. ⚖️ In fact, 80% of our well-being comes from our everyday surroundings. 🌳 A neighborhood-level approach to urban health recognizes that change starts within the community and that our health is multigenerational and historic. By considering the materiality and ecology of places and investing in the design of our streets, public spaces, civic amenities, and social infrastructure, we can ensure we meet our social and biological needs for good health. ⭐ #gehlpeople #health #healthycities  #healthylife

Cities affect people in diverse ways, offering opportunities to some while posing challenges to others. 🌆 When it comes to urban strategy and design, creating spaces that are safe, inspire a sense of belonging, and provide people with agency begins with a deep understanding of the communities we are designing with and for. 💛 This means taking extra steps to ask the right questions, forge stronger partnerships, and reach further with data to find representative stories of people’s true lived experiences. 🤝 #gehlpeople #equity #inclusivecities #inclusion #inclusivespaces

At Gehl, we know that thoughtful urban planning and design have the power to change lives. ✨ With a dedication to the everyday lived experience of people, we help shape places that connect people to each other, their communities, and the planet. 🤝 🌍 🌱 Learn more about our approach on gehlpeople.com 📖 #gehlpeople #urbanplanning #urbandesign #publicspaces #community

At Gehl, we begin every project by understanding the everyday lived experience of communities to create places that equitable, healthy, and sustainable for all. 🌱 Community engagement is at the heart of every project we do and we wanted to reflect this in the redesign of our website. 🖥️ See our projects and get to know the people behind our work here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d-9qgbh7 #gehlpeople #websitedesign #healthycities #sustainablecities #equitablecities #urbandesign