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The Gehl Membership
For decades, Gehl has shown that people-oriented cities start with studying public life. Now, we’re sharing the tools every city needs to do the same.
Sign up to learn moreSurvey public life
Get a structured way of observing public life for neighborhood studies, impact assessment, and place activation with the Gehl Public Life App.
Inspiration and comparison
Use inspirational content from a curated library and tailored live session with Gehl planners to help analyze and tell stories with public life data. Compare your public life studies internally and with global benchmark cities.
Community
Gain access to an active community of cities to share learning, with curated Gehl content tailored to community, hosted by Gehl.
Case studies
Public life data insights can transform a city
Studying public life has been key to transform large and small spaces. Below are a few case studies where studying public life helped transform cities of all sizes.
Understand the context
Use public life data collection to understand local contexts and everyday behaviours.
Engage and empower people
Engage and activate people through their experiences, stories, and narratives.
Test local solutions
Measure impact on neighborhood level interventions to highlight change for stakeholders and citizens.
Learn and refine
Evaluate success against long-term value indicators together with local stakeholders to stay on track.
Scale up for lasting impact
Create new ways of communicating to attract larger infrastructure investment and policy change in your city.
Compare your surveys
Benchmark your surveys with observations from global and locally relevant cities
Compare your public life studies with global benchmark cities
Use your collected public life observations to compare with locations in the city and with benchmark locations in 100 cities.