Movement
How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives
$85.40
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2024
Summary
“This book will—no question—make you think in new ways. Why have we surrendered our cities to cars? What might it be like to inhabit a space designed for people instead? It’s exciting and hopeful—this we can do!” —Bill McKibben, author of The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon
Almost everywhere in the world, streets are designed for travel at the highest speed, giving precedence to the chunkiest vehicles. We take for granted that the streets outside of our homes are designe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781642833447 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1642833444 |
| Author: | Thalia Verkade, Peter Norton, Marco te Brömmelstroet |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Island Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives most clearly exemplifies the more unified conversation taking shape around questions of public space and mobility. In the book, Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet offer a sharp critique of car-centric urbanism.” * Journal of the American Planning Association *
Thalia Verkade
Thalia Verkade is a writer and journalist from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has worked as Moscow correspondent for the Dutch daily newspaper NRC and has been writing about technology, mobility language, and culture for Dutch online platform De Correspondent.
Marco te Brömmelstroet is the chair of Urban Mobility Futures at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam. His teaching centers on the relationship between land use developments and mobility behavior. As founding academic director of the Urban Cycling Institute he strengthens the links between academia and how cycling relates to the urban and social environment. Cycling offers him a lens to radically reimagine the way in which society thinks about mobility, transport systems, and the street.
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