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Jan Gehl

1936 - Today

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Jan Gehl Hon. FAIA (born 17 September 1936, Copenhagen) is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Gehl has received more than 299,468 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jan Gehl is the 176th most popular architect (up from 178th in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 192nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Architect.

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  • 62.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jan Gehl ranks 176 out of 518. Before him are Ernst Neufert, Günter Behnisch, William Le Baron Jenney, Joseph Paxton, Hassan Fathy, and Charles Eames. After him are Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Gio Ponti, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Eero Aarnio, François Blondel, and John Nash.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Jan Gehl ranks 130. Before him are Georgina Spelvin, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Hifikepunye Pohamba, Jo Siffert, Adem Demaçi, and Ivan Stambolić. After him are Horst Mahler, Carol Gilligan, Alejandra Pizarnik, Annette Stroyberg, Zeynab Khanlarova, and Tuncel Kurtiz.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jan Gehl ranks 193 out of 1,032. Before him are Christian Bohr (1855), Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine (1520), Connie Nielsen (1965), Carl Værnet (1893), Jens Juel (1745), and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970). After him are Hans Christian Lumbye (1810), Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (1946), Princess Louise of Denmark (1750), Poul Nielsen (1891), Annette Stroyberg (1936), and Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Denmark

Among architects born in Denmark, Jan Gehl ranks 5. Before him are Arne Jacobsen (1902), Jørn Utzon (1918), Theophil Hansen (1813), and Verner Panton (1926). After him are Henning Larsen (1925), Christian Frederik Hansen (1756), Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929), Kaare Klint (1888), and Bjarke Ingels (1974).

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