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Gehl is a global urban strategy and design consultancy with offices in Copenhagen, New York, and San Francisco. Its portfolio spans neighborhood-scale interventions to citywide strategies, and the featured projects below show the range of that work: waterfront public programs, place activation, informal settlement integration, and master plans. If you want to understand Gehl's capabilities through concrete examples rather than service descriptions, this is the place to start.
The portfolio at a glance
Gehl's featured projects fall into a few recurring service categories. The same project often combines more than one.
| Project focus | Service categories | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Waterfront public program | Urban Design & Masterplanning, Urban Strategy | Bassin 7 |
| Being a helpful neighbor | Place Activation, Urban Strategy | |
| Play and children's health | Urban Strategy | American cities |
| Informal settlement integration | Social Spatial Research, Urban Strategy | Buenos Aires |
| Shared living master plan | Urban Design & Masterplanning, Urban Strategy | Favrholm |
| Human-scale neighborhood | Urban Design & Masterplanning, Community Engagement, Urban Strategy | Santiago |
| Healthier food habits | Social Spatial Research, Urban Strategy | — |
| School for climate solutions | Social Spatial Research, Urban Strategy | — |
| Future-proofing public spaces | Social Spatial Research, Urban Strategy | Munich |
| People-first urban transformation | Community Engagement, Urban Mobility, Urban Strategy | Saudi cities |
What the projects show about Gehl's range
From a single waterfront to a whole city
The Bassin 7 project is described as a public program to foster a vibrant and more connected waterfront — a defined site with a public-life goal. At the other end of the scale, Gehl is building a master plan for Favrholm on the principles of shared living, and a master plan for Santiago's first human-scale neighborhood. The Saudi cities work is framed as delivering a people-first urban transformation across cities, not a single block.
Social goals, not just physical design
Several projects start from a social outcome rather than a built form:
- Play and children's health — promoting play to improve children's health and well-being in American cities.
- Healthier everyday food habits — shaping built environments to nudge healthier food choices.
- Informal settlement integration — integrating Buenos Aires' most iconic informal settlement.
- Climate solutions — designing a school to accelerate global climate solutions.
Working with private and public clients
Gehl states it speaks "public and private," serving public sector, philanthropy and non-profit, real estate, and private sector clients. The Google project — upholding the company's goal to be a helpful neighbor — is an example of private-sector place activation.
How Gehl describes its own approach
Gehl says its expertise spans architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and city planning, and that it addresses global challenges using empirical analysis and designing for social behavior. The approach is described as both iterative and holistic, so solutions stay adaptable and integrated. Under its responsibility work, the firm frames itself as being "in the business of relationships between people, their communities, and the broader systems that sustain the planet," with a focus on inclusive neighborhoods and spaces that foster belonging.
Scale of the practice
Gehl reports the following figures:
- 25 years in business
- 2,600 projects across 251 cities
- 34 awards and recognitions
- 114 people across 25 nationalities
These numbers give a sense of how far the practice reaches beyond the featured examples above.
What this means if you are evaluating Gehl
If your project resembles one of the featured types — a waterfront or public space program, a neighborhood or city master plan, community engagement, or social spatial research — Gehl's published portfolio shows direct precedent. If your interest is in a specific city or sector, the featured list is a starting point rather than a complete record; the firm cites 2,600 projects across 251 cities, so the published examples are a sample.