Recently, Nick contributed a chapter to a new book: The City at Eye Level. The new version of City at Eye Level has just been released and it is the second, extended edition. You can buy your copy here.
Read their press release below:
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The City at Eye Level
The City at Eye Level is an international programme aimed at improving the city at eye level and at creating a public space with the human scale, interaction and experience as key focus. We turn streets, plazas and areas into places where people feel at home and want to stay; we let buildings contribute to the quality of public space with their ground floors (plinths). Our method combines use, design and organization (software, hardware and orgware) and work on the level of the building, the street and the context.
The City at Eye Level brings together an international network with a wealth of knowledge, inspiration and practice. The international network of contributors contains experts for placemaking, design, pedestrian flows, street performance, the urban sound scape, markets, street management, city wide strategy, newly built areas and transformation, to name a few. Stipo has set up this open source network, in collaboration with our partners UN Habitat, Future of Places, Project for Public Spaces (PPS.org), Gehl Architects, FAU PUCRS University of Porto Alegre in Brazil and Copenhagenize.
Our areas of work differ from quick interventions to long term strategies; from newly built to transformation of existing urban areas and places; from placemaking to management models and co-creation with the community; from inner cities, residential areas, work zones to informal settlements.
We share our knowledge via the open source book The City at Eye Level, the website and the Facebook community, work on projects with our network worldwide, organise lectures, workshops and masterclasses.
The second edition: a lot of new inspiration
The first book appeared in 2013, was written with 40 contributors and focused on good plinths in Europe and North-America. The second book now has 90 contributors, shows best practices on ALL continents and has a broader view of placemaking and the entire street level experience. We have new topics that were previously missing, such as the urban soundscape and wayfinding. Again, we draw integral conclusions for action throughout all chapters at the end of the book. This time, we go more deeply into how to turn the insights into concrete action in practice.
We are proud of the result. We hope you are too. This book is again completely open source. This is possible because so many professionals like you wanted to contribute. We hope the book will be read and used by many. On the website all stories are available, both the ones in the new book and the ones from the first edition.