Melissa Bruntlett

eBook, ePUB

Building the Cycling City (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

The world isrediscovering the bicycle as a multi-pronged solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. The Netherlands has built an accessible cycling culture that cities around the world can learn from.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.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 4.65MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Chris and Melissa Bruntlett are co-founders of a marketing and communications firm focused on inspiring healthier, happier, simpler forms of mobility through words, photography, and film. For many years, they have been developing written and visual content, including videos, with a focus on storytelling rather than relaying quantitative information. Collectively, they have written hundreds of articles based on the experiences of their family both at home in Vancouver and in cities around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610918800
• Artikelnr.: 54108234