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Making cities
for people

Gehl is a global urban strategy and design
consultancy with offices in Copenhagen, New York, and San Francisco.

Our Company

The softer edge
is the cutting edge

Our expertise spans architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and city planning. We address global challenges using empirical analysis, designing for social behavior to create meaningful and lasting change.

Our Services

Ever-adaptive
and holistic

Our approach is both iterative and holistic, ensuring solutions are adaptable and integrated.

Our Approach

Massive small
movements of change

We are dedicated to creating inclusive neighborhoods and spaces that foster a sense of belonging and empower people to take purposeful climate action.

Our Responsibility

We are in the business of relationships between people, their communities, and the broader systems that sustain the planet.

Our services
Featured projects

A leading portfolio from eye-level to high-level

Diverse communities bathing at Bassin 7. Credit: Rasmus Hjortshøj

Bassin 7 public program to foster a vibrant and more connected waterfront

  • Urban Design & Masterplanning
  • Urban Strategy
Credit: Mark Wickens

Upholding Google’s goal to be a helpful neighbor

  • Place Activation
  • Urban Strategy
Credit: Gehl

Promoting play to improve children’s health and well-being in American cities

  • Urban Strategy
Credit: Buenos Aires City Government

Integrating Buenos Aires’ most iconic informal settlement

  • Social Spatial Research
  • Urban Strategy
Credit: Gehl

Building a master plan for Favrholm on the principles of shared living

  • Urban Design & Masterplanning
  • Urban Strategy
Credit: Lucian Racovitanl

A master plan for Santiago’s first human-scale neighborhood

  • Urban Design & Masterplanning
  • Community Engagement
  • Urban Strategy
Photo courtesy: Novo Nordisk

Shaping built environments to nudge healthier everyday food habits

  • Social Spatial Research
  • Urban Strategy
Credit: Gehl

Designing a school to accelerate global climate solutions

  • Social Spatial Research
  • Urban Strategy
Credit: Jan Antonin

Future proofing Munich’s public spaces

  • Social Spatial Research
  • Urban Strategy
Credit: Gehl

Delivering a people-first urban transformation in Saudi cities

  • Community Engagement
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Strategy
Gehl in numbers

A truly global practice

years in business

25

projects across 251 cities

2600

awards and recognitions

34

people across 25 nationalities

114

Our clients

We speak public and private

As trusted advisors to many world-renowned clients, we value long-term project relationships that lead to tangible, and lasting change.

Paramatta Square, Sydney, Australia. Credit: Gehl

Planetary health

Designing in symbiosis with people, places, and the planet

Gehl’s people-first approach has always assumed the ecological impact of its work.

Credit: Ali Al Anazi, Smart Madinah

Life between buildings

Cities After Sunset: How the Holy Month of Ramadan Reimagines Public Life

Ramadan is a time of deep personal reflection, spiritual renewal, and community connection. It’s also a time when cities — especially across the Gulf and many parts of the muslim world — shift their rhythm.

Credit: VisitCopenhagen

City making

Denmark’s New National Architecture Policy Sets a Bold Vision for Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development

Credit: Cityscape Global

City making

Cityscape Global 2024

Our Story

The Downtown DC Public Realm Plan Has Been Awarded the 2024 Chapter Planning Award for Outstanding Plan

The Rochor Road area is envisioned as an active and green pedestrian space. Credit: Vivid Vision

Our Story

We are transforming Singapore’s North-South Corridor

Credit: Gehl

Our Story

Director US Cities Anna Muessig and Director of Research & Development Liselott Stenfeldt join Gehl’s Partner Group

Credit: David Dini for kyu House

Our Story

Gehl at Climate Week NYC

Social and cultural activation in Copenhagen, Spor10. Credit: Novo Nordisk.

Our Story

Spor10: Putting People and Health First in Neighborhood Development

Credit: Gehl.

Planetary health

How Climate Action is Unlocked by Behavioral Tipping Points

Meaningful climate era change means meaningful lifestyle changes. But how do we encourage transformation that sticks?

Credit: Gehl.

Life between buildings

Social Infrastructure: Connecting People and Places for Thriving Communities

Lessons learned for the United States on how to better define, invest in, and sustain social infrastructure in communities.