Draft:Ingrid Gehl

Ingrid Gehl is a Danish environemntal psychologist and urban researcher. Along with her husband, Jan Gehl, she was researching people's activities in urban spaces. In 1971 she published book "Bo-Miljø" about people's needs in living environements.

Research work
Gehl was advocating for social sustainability in her book "Bo-Miljø" (eng. "Living Environments"). The book, published in 1971, was part of the influential Statens Byggeforskningsinstitut (Danish Building Research Institute) SBi series of publications.It was released in a series on building research, outside of her primary area of expertise, which was psychology. It was released together with Jan Gehl's book "Life Between Buildings" about urban design, which became one of the most important works in urban design field.

“Why are you architects not interested in people?” Ingrid Gehl asked her new husband, Jan. “What do you think about the fact that your architecture professors take their photos at four o’clock in the morning. . . without the distraction of people in the photos?”

People's needs in living environments
Needs of people in living environements discussed in the book are:


 * Need for Contact
 * Need for isolation
 * Need for experiencing
 * Need for activity
 * Need for structuring one's environement
 * Aestheric need