The de­sign of the book in many lay­ers, goes hand in hand with the con­tent, which de­scribes the many dif­fer­ent lay­ers with which the en­gi­neers schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner deal and in which they work.

How do the en­gi­neers al­ways man­age to de­liver in­no­v­a­tive and first-class work? A look be­hind the scenes de­scribes this. In ad­di­tion to ex­cit­ing texts and pro­ject de­scrip­tions, the book also pro­vides space for beau­ti­ful, quiet photo se­ries. What it means when en­gi­neers work to­gether with artists is shown in the layer art, for ex­am­ple. Nu­mer­ous works are vividly ex­plored in depth about Aug­mented Re­al­ity.

In this book, pub­lished by the “Birkhäuser Ver­lag”, Ur­sula Baus and Mike Schlaich pre­sent from an ar­chi­tec­tural and en­gi­neer­ing point of view: the con­struc­tion, de­sign and his­tory of pedes­trian bridges, with a fo­cus on the one sec­tion of the struc­ture that is re­served only for pedes­tri­ans and cy­clists. The de­sign con­cept is based on the prin­ci­pal of a wash­ing line, cre­at­ing ex­cep­tion­ally strik­ing pages. This in turn re­flects the di­ver­sity of the bridges and the in­di­vid­ual per­cep­tion of these.

“This book is for all those in­ter­ested in civic en­gi­neer­ing and its ef­fects on peo­ple and na­ture. Writ­ten in the style of a travel guide, it in­spires the reader to visit the sites.” (from the pro­logue). A 700-page ref­er­ence work – this book is the first of its kind. In a handy size pa­per­back for­mat, the book is de­signed for the read­er’s con­ve­nience. It fea­tures a pro­tec­tive plas­tic cover, the con­tent is or­gan­ised us­ing in­dex di­viders and a map with each site is marked us­ing a cus­tom-de­signed pic­togram fam­ily. Moni­teurs de­signed and pro­duced the en­tire edi­tion.