Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality - Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett
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Bicycle
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Building the Cycling City
The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
By: Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 08-28-18
Publisher’s Summary
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 multipronged (or -spoked) 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.
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.
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 far more accessible, 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.
The relatable success stories will leave listeners inspired and ready to adopt and implement approaches to make their own cities better places to live, work, play, and - of course - cycle.
©2018 Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett (P)2018 Tantor
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 3.7/5
May 7th, 2021
Amazing. Both stunning AND brave!
I am looking forward to the sequel which will be called “bash their heads” and tell the story of the utopian Dutch police force kicking ten bells out of people sitting in parks.
Socialism is a true wonder, we can’t wait for a world in which we have no cars and the state can beat you up in the street with nobody objecting to it at all.
I wonder why no-one’s done this “properly” before?
May 7th, 2021
Or do what Pete Buttigieg does, have your armored SUV driver drop you off a block from your office so you can be seen cycling in. Of course, it’s the same gas-guzzling armored SUV he rode in to the electric car show.
May 7th, 2021
Just an FYI that by “utopian Dutch police force kicking ten bells out of people sitting in parks” as mentioned by an individual who is either a racoon aficionado or a racist troll, actually means that in January of 2021, the police in the Netherlands, across many cities, arrested some 150 protesters, total.
Police used water cannons on some of them - after the police was pelted with rocks, fireworks, stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails and after protesters set fires at some places.
E.g. A testing facility in Urk, was set on fire.
Protesters were violating a 21:00-4:30 curfew established to stop the spread of more transmissible variants of the novel coronavirus.
For comparison’s sake, Hague police reported issuing some 3600 fines for violating the curfew, while 25 people were arrested there as they refused to leave or committed open violence.
May 8th, 2021
Just an FYI. Making excuses for police beating people in parks, where they were caught on camera, and those people were not throwing rocks, but sitting on the grass, is known as gaslighting.
This is a common facet of Leftist behaviors. They pretend that what you can see with your own eyes is not real and that somehow you have misunderstood.
So, for example, a Dutch picnicker becomes a violent thug, whereas a BLM activist burning down a city is known as “mostly peaceful”.
These people are, in fact, the “racist trolls” as they try to explain to you how folks with a certain skin color are unable to learn grammar, mathematics, etc. and that somehow expecting them not to commit crimes is also unreasonable.
May 8th, 2021
@GordonCoon — This book is about cycling in Holland, written in 2018.
Your unhinged rant has absolutely not one thing of relevance to this book.
May 8th, 2021
@Gweilo, bless, it’s always good to be criticized by you, it tells me that I must be doing something right. Thanks, chap.
May 8th, 2021
Now all we need to make our cities work is people that behave like the Dutch.
May 9th, 2021
Thank you Gweilo for all that you do to build the ABB community.
January 16th, 2022
please seed
February 20th, 2026
Chapter One:
Start with a flat city . . .
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