LEADER 04527nam 22006495 450 001 9910315358503321 005 20250730100252.0 010 $a9781610918800 010 $a1610918800 024 7 $a10.5822/978-1-61091-880-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000004836454 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5435075 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-61091-880-0 035 $a(PPN)235229709 035 $a(ODN)ODN0004261051 035 $a(Perlego)2985002 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004836454 100 $a20190306d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBuilding the Cycling City $eThe Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality /$fby Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aWashington, DC :$cIsland Press/Center for Resource Economics :$cImprint: Island Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations 311 08$a1-61091-879-7 311 08$a1-64283-024-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreface -- Introduction: A Nation of Fietsers -- Chapter 1: Streets Aren't Set in Stone -- Chapter 2: Not Sport. Transport. -- Chapter 3: Fortune Favors the Brave -- Chapter 4: One Size Won't Fit All -- Chapter 5: Demand More -- Chapter 6: Think Outside the Van -- Chapter 7: Build at a Human Scale -- Chapter 8: Use Bikes to Feed Transit -- Chapter 9: Put Your City on the Map -- Chapter 10: Learn to Ride Like the Dutch -- Conclusion: A World of Fietsers -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography. 330 $aIn 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, 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 readers inspired and ready to adopt and implement approaches to make their own cities better places to live, work, play, and?of course?cycle. 606 $aTransportation engineering 606 $aTraffic engineering 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aPublic health 606 $aTransportation Technology and Traffic Engineering 606 $aUrban Sociology 606 $aPublic Health 615 0$aTransportation engineering. 615 0$aTraffic engineering. 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aPublic health. 615 14$aTransportation Technology and Traffic Engineering. 615 24$aUrban Sociology. 615 24$aPublic Health. 676 $a796.6 686 $aARC000000$aARC010000$aTRA010000$2bisacsh 700 $aBruntlett$b Melissa$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01062439 702 $aBruntlett$b Chris$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910315358503321 996 $aBuilding the Cycling City$92525679 997 $aUNINA