Movement - How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives

In Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives, journalist Thalia Verkade and mobility expert ("the cycling professor") Marco te Brömmelstroet take a three-year shared journey of discovery into the possibilities of our streets. They investigate and question the choices and mechanisms underpinning how these public spaces are designed and look at how they could be different. Verkade and te Brömmelstroet draw inspiration from the Netherlands and look at what other countries are doing, and could do, to diversify how they use their streets and make them safer.

Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking these fundamental questions: who do our streets belong to, how do we want to use them, and who gets to decide? To truly transform mobility, we need to look far beyond the technical aspects and put people at the center of urban design. Movement will change the way that you view our streets.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Marco Te Brömmelstroet, Thalia Verkade, Thalia Verkade
• Assisted by: Peter Norton (Foreword)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781642833447
• ISBN: 978-1-64283-344-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, TRANSPORTATION / Bicycles, City & town planning - architectural aspects, cycling, Transport: general interest, Transport planning and policy, Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Transport planning & policy, Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general interest