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Can a Trash Can Reveal a Community’s Values?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTwq6NxHXQ What can the U.S. learn from Copenhagen about designing public spaces to foster healthier, more inclusive communities? One of the most striking cultural symbols upon arriving in Copenhagen is the sheer number of cyclists navigating city streets—in fact bicycles outnumber…
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Webinar on Health, Equity, Design, and Community Engagement
New York (Online)
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Improving the Physical Environment to Advance Health Equity: Case Studies in Community Engagement
New York (Online)
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Public Life Champions: Alex Peay
Public Life Champions is a new interview series by Gehl Institute, where we highlight leaders who are working towards a more just, inclusive public life in cities. Our first interviewee, Alex Peay, is the founder of Rising Sons and One’s…
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Open Engagement ’17
Open Engagement (OE) is an annual, three-day conference on socially engaged art, led by artists, activists, scholars, community leaders, and others. This year’s conference took place on April 21-23 at various sites across Chicago; it’s theme was JUSTICE. Lisa Yun…
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Public Life and Shared Data
Earlier this Summer, Gehl was involved in a collaboration between the Copenhagen Municipality and Hitachi, a multinational innovation company, to explore the opportunities of a new comprehensive online data sharing platform– the City Data Exchange. The Exchange is going to…
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Savory Saturday gathering
Savory Saturday gathering in the Name of Community Driven Public Space Improvements A few weekends ago local project partner, HWEP, hosted an early morning public engagement event, with food trucks that served savory breakfast foods, coffee and delicious pastry. The…
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Historic West End Pilot
Gehl Institute received support from the Charlotte Knight office in the summer of 2015. This builds on Gehl’s Charlotte Public Space Plan, which we produced with Center City Partners in 2015. Current work is focused on developing a pilot project,…