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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bruntlett, Melissa (Author), Bruntlett, Chris (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : 2018.
Imprint: Island Press,
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Transportation engineering.
Traffic engineering.
Sociology, Urban.
Public health.
Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.
Urban Sociology.
Public Health.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 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.

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