Melissa Bruntlett
Autore di Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
Opere di Melissa Bruntlett
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- female
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- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 44
- Popolarità
- #346,250
- Voto
- 4.6
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 4
I listened to this audiobook on my bike commute, which was probably the ideal way to listen to this, and I found it really thought-provoking. A few things that I found especially interesting: the authors sing the praises of non-"traditional" bikes like electric-assisted bikes, cargo bikes, and upright bikes as a way to encourage biking among people of varied ages/abilities. I hadn't thought much about how useful these could be. The in-depth looks at the different Dutch cities were also really interesting. Most broadly, though, I found one of the main ideas, that the impressive bike infrastructure and system in the Netherlands isn't just a foregone conclusion/how things have always been, really compelling; though people in the Netherlands have ridden bikes for a long time, there have been active decisions within the last century regarding how traffic in cities is conceptualized and how the flow of traffic (of various kinds) is directed. There's a lot of optimism in this view, I think, regarding how these kinds of decisions could also be made elsewhere.… (altro)