The City at Eye Level: Lessons for Street Plinths - Softcover

 
9789059729995: The City at Eye Level: Lessons for Street Plinths
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9059729994 ISBN 13: 9789059729995
Verlag: EBURON PUBL, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The way in which most city inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. Storefronts, first floor apartments, and sidewalks are the most immediate and common experience of a city. These plinths are the ground floors that negotiate between inside and outside, the public and private spheres. Featuring more than one hundred pages of new analysis and a new foreword from Joan Clos, under-secretary-general of the United Nations and executive director of UN-Habitat, this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The City at Eye Level qualitatively evaluates plinths by exploring specific examples from all over the world. Over twenty-five experts investigate the design, land use, and road and foot traffic in rigorously researched essays, case studies, and interviews. These pieces are supplemented by more than two hundred beautiful color images&;sixty new to this edition&;that engage not only with issues in design, but also the concerns of urban communities. The editors have put together a comprehensive guide for anyone concerned with improving or building plinths, including planners, building owners, property and shop managers, designers, and architects.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hans Karssenberg advises cities, housing providers, developers, and NGOs in the Netherlands and internationally. Jeroen Laven is an urban planner based in Rotterdam. Meredith Glaser is an Amsterdam-based urban and mobility strategist who works on projects with Copenhagenize Design Co. Mattijs van &;t Hoff is a visiting lecturer in urbanism at Delft University of Technology.

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The "plinths" of the city are the ground floors that negotiate between the inside and the outside, between the public and the private: this is the city at eye level. Plinths are extremely important for the urban experience, which in turn is an important driver for the urban economy. The plinths might cover only 10% of the building, but determine 90% of the experience. While walking, you consciously and subconsciously examine the immediate eye-level surroundings and absorb any details.

The book shows you how a good plinth "works" for a better street at eye level. It contains concrete and inspiring examples of strategies for design, land use, the relation to the street, passenger flows and the collaboration of partners. The book is a collection of stories of over 25 experts from all over the world: a collective product with lessons from planners, owners, managers and designers. In addition to many international examples and case studies, the book contains several interviews and research articles. It concludes with practical lessons for the reader to put into practice in their own cities.

"... an extraordinarily valuable compendium of insight and perspective ..."
Stephen Roulac on the first 2013 edition in New York Journal of Books.

This is the second and extended version (2016).

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Verlag
EBURON PUBL
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9059729994
ISBN 13 
9789059729995
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Karssenberg Hans, Laven Jeroen, Glaser Meredith
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