The City At Eye Level Asia

The City at Eye Level Asia explores how streets, neighbourhoods, and public spaces across Asian cities can be transformed into vibrant, people-centred environments. Drawing from real projects, case studies, and community-led initiatives across the continent, the book demonstrates how human-scale urban design can improve everyday life for residents.

It highlights the importance of walkability, inclusivity, heritage-sensitive planning, and place-making practices. Through contributions by urbanists, designers, researchers, and community practitioners, the book offers practical strategies for creating lively, safe, and culturally rich public spaces that respond to Asia’s unique urban challenges.

This volume is part of the global City at Eye Level series and serves as both an inspirational guide and a technical reference for city-makers, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in improving urban life in the Asian context.

The Author / Contributors

The City at Eye Level Asia is the result of a collaborative effort between three main organisations:

• STIPO (team for urban strategy & city development, based in the Netherlands)
• Think City (Malaysia — Kuala Lumpur, George Town, Johor Bahru)
• Urban Discovery (Hong Kong / Bangkok)

Key Editors / Curators

The book was curated and edited by:

• Hans Karssenberg — founding partner of STIPO, a senior advisor on urban strategy.
• Charlot Schans — part of STIPO’s editorial team.
• Siënna Veelders — urban heritage expert at STIPO. She was instrumental in shaping the Asian edition, bringing her experience from work in Hong Kong and Myanmar.

Supporting the core editorial/curation team were additional contributors from STIPO: Naomi Oud, Lapthawan Lee (also referred to as “Mo” Lee), Husain Al‑Afoo, Nady Nassar, and Matej Ušák.

On the Think City side, the team included: Daniel Lim, Jia Ping Lee, and Tasnim Abdul Hadi.

For Urban Discovery, among the contributors were: Ester van Steekelenburg, Stephanie Cheung, Tiffany Tang, and Paul Schuttenbelt.

The visual and graphic design was led by Natasha Berting (art direction & book design), based on the visual identity of the larger “City at Eye Level” series.