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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 278,679 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jan Gehl is the 179th most popular architect (up from 250th in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 243rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jan Gehl ranks 179 out of 424Before him are Kisho Kurokawa, Mikhail Eisenstein, Jacques-François Blondel, Pietro Lombardo, Jacques Lemercier, and Henri Labrouste. After him are Roberto Burle Marx, Paul Troost, Jacob van Campen, François Blondel, John Nash, and Bernard Tschumi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Jan Gehl ranks 129Before him are Raimonds Pauls, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Yuan T. Lee, Tuncel Kurtiz, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Horst Mahler. After him are Eugenio Barba, Louis Gossett Jr., Zeynab Khanlarova, Robert Downey Sr., A. B. Yehoshua, and Julio María Sanguinetti.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jan Gehl ranks 193 out of 893Before him are Peter Andreas Hansen (1795), Prince Axel of Denmark (1888), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1546), John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1545), Edvard Eriksen (1876), and Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine (1520). After him are Adam Oehlenschläger (1779), Preben Elkjær (1957), Prince Harald of Denmark (1876), Princess Caroline of Denmark (1793), Poul Schlüter (1929), and Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (1649).

Among ARCHITECTS In Denmark

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