Authors: Daniel Casas-Valle, Giacomo Gallo
Book: full colour, 165 pages, in English
November 2025
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This book presents the results of design research about the impact of urban logistics on street design. The project was funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL, as part of the programme ´De Nieuwe Ruimte – Ways to Wellbeing,´ and by the city of Leiden. The research started with the question: how is urban logistics influencing urban streets? The recent intensification of delivery riders on streets, together with the densification of many urban areas, means that the topic is changing: potentially leading to more conflicts in public space. It is therefore essential to understand its principles, its logic, and its spatial impact. Or as Walther Ploos van Amstel, and others, emphasise: the problem is not being taken seriously enough. These concerns are understandable from the mobility and urban logistics sector itself, but can undermine the vision that many cities have in ´Ways to Wellbeing,´ with more streets of proximity, with places of social interaction and space for nature.
The scope of the first part of the research was ´last-mile logistics,´ which includes all kinds of delivery vehicles, including small electric vehicles and cargo bikes. The research focus was on dense, mixed-use urban areas. Three case areas were investigated in Leiden, Amsterdam and Eindhoven. In the second part of the research, the scope enlarged from ´last-mile logistics´ to all kinds of ´urban logistics.´
This book showcases, from the angle of complete and liveable streets, the variety and complexity related to the challenges and new demands of urban logistics. The main aim is to understand and provide an overview of the full complexity of the spatiality of urban logistics, at the scale of a neighbourhood, street, and its components. The book is structured in three chapters. The first chapter, Urban Logistics, unfolds the variety of all kinds of urban logistics, the vehicle types, the demanded spaces, the various logistics systems, and their position on the street. The method presented in the following chapter, Urban Plans & Logistics, demonstrates how urban logistics can be taken into account in the urban planning process, and how this can be mapped. In the last chapter, Street Design, a design model and toolbox is presented, showing how urban logistics can be integrated in a balanced manner at the street level.
