• 288pages
• Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
• Melissa Bruntlett
• English
• 09 July 2019
• 1610918797

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SUMMARY Ú Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality Ing along with other encouraging examples Tellingly the Dutch have two words for people who ride bikes wielrenner “wheel runner” and fietser “cyclist” the latter making up the vast majority of people pedaling on their streets and representing a faraccessible casual and inclusive style of urban cycling―walking with wheels Outside of their borders a significant cultural shift is needed to seamlessly integrate the bicycle into everyday life and create a whole world of fietsers The Dutch blueprint focuses on how people in a particular place want to move. Every city planner should read this book To move away from auto centric to people centric reuires planning and courage This book shows what is possible when planners use their skills and courage to put people first not cars

SUMMARY Ú Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality In car clogged urban areas across the world the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation City officials are rediscovering it as a multi pronged or spoked solution to acute 21st century problems including affordability obesity congestion climate change ineuity 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 econ. I like how the authors brought forth the notion that road safety was a major factor in the decision making process that lead to the bicycle facilities we see today in the Netherlands I am familiar with Vision Zero I feel the authors did an excellent job of explaining this concept and are right on point when they conclude Without investments in safer streets matched with proportionate funding for better walkways and better bike paths concepts like Vision Zero are nothing than a nice idea I also like how the authors emphasized the notion that network development was and still is an evolutionary process and that each city must adapt in its own way I could say about the good in this book I am a transportation professional I look forward to sharing the stories and insights in this book with other transportation professionals

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SUMMARY Ú Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality Omic means 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 bik. For anyone who has visited the Netherlands and ridden a bike there this is the back story and uite a story it is