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Building the cycling city, the Dutch blueprint for urban vitality / Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett

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Building the cycling city, the Dutch blueprint for urban vitality / Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Building the cycling city

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1030342246

Sub title

the Dutch blueprint for urban vitality / Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett

Summary

The world isrediscovering the bicycle as a multi-pronged solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. The Netherlands has built an accessible cycling culture that cities around the world can learn from. /> /> Chris and Melissa Bruntlett share the incredible success of the Netherlands through engaging interviews with local experts and stories of their own delightful experiences riding in five Dutch cities. Building the Cycling City examines the triumphs and challenges of the Dutch while also presenting stories of North American cities already implementing lessons from across the Atlantic. Discover how Dutch cities inspired Atlanta to look at its transit-bike connection in a new way and showed Seattle how to teach its residents to realize the freedom of biking, along with other encouraging examples

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Introduction: A nation of fietsers -- 1. Streets aren't set in stone -- 2. Not sport, transport -- 3. Fortune favors the brave -- 4. One size won't fit all -- 5. Demand more -- 6. Think outside the van -- 7. Build at a human scale -- 8. Use bikes to feed transit -- 9. Put your city on the map -- 10. Learn to ride like the Dutch -- Conclusion: A word of fietsers

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