Building the Cycling City
The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
Person: Bruntlett, Melissa; Bruntlett, Chris
Year: 2018
Language: English
Scope: 240 p.
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- Contents:
- In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world's foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the only country where the number of bikes exceeds the number of people, primarily because the Dutch have built a cycling culture accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ability, or economic means. This book describes the success of the Netherlands and 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.
- Chris and Melissa Bruntlett are co-founders of a marketing and communications firm focused on inspiring healthier, happier, simpler forms of mobility through words, photography, and film. For many years, they have been developing written and visual content, including videos, with a focus on storytelling rather than relaying quantitative information. Collectively, they have written hundreds of articles based on the experiences of their family both at home in Vancouver and in cities around the world.
Title Information
Title: Building the Cycling City
Person: Bruntlett, Melissa; Bruntlett, Chris
Publisher : Inscribe Digital
ISBN: 9781610918800
Category: Non-Fiction & Guidebooks, Art, Culture & Media, Architecture
Format: ePub
Loan period: 21 days