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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Danish urban planner and committed pedometer user Jan Gehl is an expert in creating “cities for people.” Following a recent talk he gave on sustainable cities in Basel, Gehl sat down with Tages Wocke ...

Editor’s Note: The chair of the first RIBA International Prize grand jury, renowned British architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Richard Rogers joined CNN Style as guest editor for November 2016. He ...