Gehl Project Highlights 2021-22

Landsbyggefonden Strategic Advisory

Year

2021 - ongoing

Gehl is advising Denmark’s National Building Fund to include a strategic urban approach and knowledge throughout much of its portfolio of activities. This includes facilitating a review board to qualify how non-profit housing supports the National Building Fund to contribute to better cities, launching an idea competition that invites the international community to help shape the future of intergenerational neighbourhoods, and supporting the development of a new national rent model which will guide support from the foundation.

Location

Denmark

Scale

Across all cities

Service Areas

Organization strategy, positioning and tools

Client

Landsbyggefonden / The National Building Fund

Project Highlights

Neighborhoods for GenerationsOpen Call

Copenhagen, Denmark

Our society is aging rapidly. Over the next two decades we need to realise new models of living that can cater to the needs of seniors,, families, and young people alike. Supporting Denmark's' National Building Fund, Landsbyggefonden, we've created an ideas competition to spark innovative and relevant solutions to this grand challenge. Neighbourhoods for Generations will lead to the prototyping of housing and public realm solutions in two existing neighbourhoods in Denmark.

Smedeland

Glostrup, Denmark

On the outskirts of Copenhagen, we're working to transform a former 100% industrial site to a sustainability focused mixed use district. With new public transport infrastructure in the area, this Masterplan will help create a car-free district with public space design informed by the daily activities of children, families and the elderly.

Munich, Germany

Gehl has worked with the City of Munich to deliver a city-wide Socio-Spatial Study of the user patterns of publicly accessible spaces. The study is the first of its kind in Germany’s most densely populated city. Gehl with collaborators has completed a comprehensive analysis of multiple data sources. Gehl’s analysis includes the creation of 10 user group profiles to provide the perspective of different distinct groups of people living in the city – making it one of the first times in one of Germany’s major cities that user profiles has been used to bring a people-first perspective to an urban development analysis of this type.

Foodscape Pilot Workshops

Bogotá, Colombia

50% of Bogotá's population suffers from food insecurity. Informal and unplanned growth on the city's outskirts keep people from eating well. As a response, we developed key strategies and pilot projects in four neighborhoods in Bogotá that advance healthy lifestyles and improve access to healthy food.

PSPL Study for the State Capital Munich

Stanford Climate School

Vision & Urban Design Principles

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability seeks to accelerate solutions to the global climate crisis.

To achieve this goal, the school not only needs new facilities, but more importantly a cultural shift towards cross-disciplinary collaboration, collectivism, and camaraderie. Gehl is leading the engagement process and strategic organization design to advance the establishment of the vision, values, structure and physical program for SDSS , setting the parameters for how spatial design informs culture and vice versa.

Year

2021 - ongoing

Location

Palo Alto, California

Scale

14 acres

Service Areas

Strategic Organization Design

Client Stanford University

Project Highlights

Korneuburg Wharf

Korneuburg, Austria

Gehl as helped SIGNA qualify the planning of a new neighbourhood in Korneuburg - just on the edge of Vienna, Austria - the aim is not only to create a carbon neutral development, but to invite for sustainable behaviour everyday. Gehl has led the masterplan, public space plan and landscape plan while collaborating with 6 great international building architects in an integrated design process.

Wellington PSPL study

Wellington, New Zealand

As Wellington identifies climate change as its biggest challenge, and with a programme of change underway, we conducted a PSPL study to identify the city center's strengths and growing pains, and propose a number of strategic moves. The report will be used to assist in validating Wellington's urban development projects, ensuring a focus on the public realm as a core protagonist in a more resilient, social and connected city.

Princeton Mobility Consultants

Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton University wish to make the on-campus pedestrian and micro-mobility experience for students, faculty and visitors irresistible. Working as Princeton's mobility consultant, the Gehl team developed a series of interventions and facilities improvements – built on a system wide analysis of current flows, experiences, and aspirations – to realize this first-in-class mobility for the University.

Reimagine Hillsdale: Community Engagement

San Mateo, California

The Hillsdale Shopping Center is being re-envisioned for the future as a vibrant mixed-use development, led by the Gehl team, that will transform a historic shopping destination into a contemporary, complete neighborhood. Gehl designed and staffed a living storefront in the shopping center as a platform for gathering community input and building trust as the design project evolves.

Favrholm Stadium Quarter Master Plan

Favrholm is one of Denmark's largest greenfield developments, set to become home to 4,000 residents and 10,000 workers. With unique nature on its doorstep, and a new stadium and sports complex as a focal point, the Gehl led Masterplan Framework integrates green spaces, movement, sport, and community into the urban fabric.

An open and transparent collaborative process, as well as maintaining a flexible approach throughout the project, led to a vision that was approved unanimously by all 27 members of the Hillerød City Council.

Year

2021

Location

Hillerød, Denmark

Scale

94 ha

Service Areas

Masterplan Development

Client

Propreco

Local partner

AI, Niras, FC Nordsjælland

Project Highlights

UNICEF Foodscapes

Mexico City & Santiago de Chile

In Latin America and the Caribbean, unhealthy urban lifestyles and obesogenic food environments contribute to some of the highest child obesity rates in the world. Teaming up with UNICEF we looked at two cities, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile, to collect data on foodscapes, and children and their caregivers everyday lives. Gender inequality, accessibility to fresh products, and insecurity in public spaces were identified as barriers for children to move and eat well. 17 project ideas and recommendations were developed to try counter these findings.

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Rochester, Minnesota

A PSPL for the Destination Medical Center Peace Plaza in Rochester, Minnesota, taking a look at how the plaza is serving the needs of residents and Mayo clinic patients alike.

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Karlsruhe, Germany

Gehl has, in close collaboration with the City of Karlsruhe, and based on workshops with stakeholders and other data collection, prepared an urban space and mobility plan for Karlsruhe. The goal has been to further develop the central city districts both commercially and as residential areas, to further reduce car traffic (including CO2 emissions) and to ensure the best possible use of recent, extensive investments in roads and light rail.

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Bristol Commons - Master Plan

Santa Ana, California

Gehl– the lead Masterplanner for Related Companies’ largest project nationwide –is heralding the creation of Santa Ana’s newest neighborhood: a dense, vibrant and liveable, mixed use development that will become the standard for contemporary urban renewal and community building.

Heart of the City - Public Space Design Services

Integrated Mobility Plan

Saudi Arabia National Urban Design Guidelines

Gehl were entrusted to deliver Saudi Arabia's first National Urban Design Guidelines that support the ambitious goals of Vision 2030. The guidelines serve as a foundation for decision-makers, government and local authorities, consultants and local communities to enable delivery of a people-first urban transformation - balancing bold ambitions with on the ground experience, to make it easier for people to spend time together outdoors.

We have worked closely with local partners to develop a shared vision and a team of local designers to build capacity in the region.

Year

2021

Location

Saudi Arabia

Scale

National

Service Areas

Policy Development, Urban Strategy and Organizational Training

Client

MoMRAH - Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing

Project Highlights

City of Cambridge Urban Design Guidelines

Cambridge, Massachusetts

There’s no shortage of public spaces in Cambridge; however, understanding how these spaces function and how they might better serve the community is a priority. Gehl is working with the City to better understand how a city can create design guidelines informed by public life and quality of experience.

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North Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois

The Chicago DOT (CDOT) and Illinois DOT are making significant investments to improve the North DuSable Lake Shore Drive roadway infrastructure along the city’s lakefront. Now, with a preferred functional roadway layout established, CDOT has partnered with Gehl to develop people-first concept designs for planned improvements that will increase connectivity between the city and the lakefront.

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Castro Street

Mountain View, California

Gehl began partnering with the City of Mountain View in 2020 to study existing public life and public space, pilot solutions, facilitate community engagement, and develop a concept street design for the heart of Downtown. As an economic recovery response, Gehl was engaged to expand the client’s scope of work to include a street closure pilot. Phase II of the project looks to expand the scope across three blocks of Castro Street and adapt the initial street closure pilot into a longer term solution that will continue to encourage vibrant life along the corridor.

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Built to Play, Impact Assessment

Detroit and Buffalo, USA

Impact assessment in partnership with the RJWF, KaBOOM!, and The Skatepark Project to assess the efficacy of the program’s play-space investments across Detroit and Buffalo. / Leading a multi-method assessment of over 90 playspaces and skateparks across three states and the surrounding regions, to understand the spaces’ impact on youth and community development.

Reimagine Hillsdale Shopping Center

Cultural and economic trends have dramatically shifted retail landscape of the 21st century. To keep pace with these changes, the Bohannon Group engaged Gehl as lead masterplanning team to create a vision for the future of their shopping center site on the Peninsula into a vibrant, economically successful, and environmentally sustainable public space for the community.

Using a multifaceted approach – that includes community engagement and the development of a masterplanning framework – the Gehl team is tackling these specific challenges while also establishing a clear and ambitious vision for the site in collaboration with the leadership partners and the community.

Year 2022 Location

San Mateo, CA

Scale

52 acres

Service Areas

Vision, Master Planning, Community

Engagement, Graphic Design, Website

Design

Client

Bohannan Development Company & Northwood Invstors