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Cover of the book: Street-level desires

Street-level desires

Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, published its book on pedestrian mobility and the regeneration of the European city centre: Street-level desires, discovering the city on foot. The full colour book can be ordered as hard copy at Amazon.com for the friendly price of $18.99, £12,65, €17,99.

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Best of all: Street-level desires, discovering the city on foot is also available at Scribd.com. Here TU Delft provides you with a free-of-charge PDF-download of the full book, including all 160 pages without any restrictions. We did however reduce the resolution of the images to 72 dpi to allow for easier download and on-line viewing. At Scribd.com you will also find the code to insert the full book in your blog or website, as demonstrated here on Connected Cities. Enjoy!

Spatial Metro

Spatial Metro, a project largely funded by the EU, aims to make city visits more enjoyable for pedestrians by making cities easier to navigate, easier to walk around and easier to understand and appreciate. This is achieved in various ways, including illuminating characteristic buildings, providing ‘metro style’ maps as well as appropriate information and signposting for pedestrians and the application of GPS technology. Together with municipalities and universities, five cities (Norwich, Bristol, Rouen, Koblenz and Biel/Bienne) in North West Europe have carried out pilot studies and exchanged experiences. In the book Street-level desires, discovering the city on foot, their findings are shared with the reader.

Faculty of Architecture

On 13 May 2008, the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology was unexpectedly reduced to ashes by a devastating fire. It was shocking to see how this sturdy building, which was full of valuable collections and always bustling with activity, turned out to be so vulnerable. Both in a material and an emotional sense, the fire was undoubtedly a major loss. The fire shook the foundations of the Dutch architectural community. Nevertheless, this community soon joined forces to set to work again. The Faculty of Architecture in Delft was already renowned the world over for its decisive, innovative and pragmatic approach. And it is precisely thanks to this characteristic attitude that the Faculty’s sorrow regarding the loss was coupled with an enthusiastic and unflagging energy to enter a new phase.