Movement

how to take back our streets and transform our lives
Thalia Verkade, Marco te Brömmelstroet (trans. Fiona Graham)

‘These writers have the gift of looking again at things you thought you knew, like your own street, your bike or your life. This book is an infectious plea for a calmer, richer life.’

Arjen van Veelen, author

‘Alice in Trafficland.’

De Groene Amsterdammer

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‘Why is the car still the boss in the street? In the book Movement, cycling professor Marco te Brömmelstroet and journalist Thalia Verkade show how the car is taking up more and more space. And that this is at the expense of cyclists, walkers, steppers and skaters.’

Robert Visscher, NEMO Kennislkink

‘Verkade’s somewhat surprised look from the outside makes traffic professionals once again critically look at what is considered normal and the norm … In an interesting history lecture, she tells how the car, as a symbol of freedom and progress, managed to work its way from guest to boss on the street in a short time.’

Edwin Kruiniger, NM Magazine

‘Movement is an important book, full of interesting examples, curious, surprised, angry, sometimes indiscriminate. It deserves a broad social discussion about the way we design our cities and streets. A discussion that will hopefully also lead to other choices. It has to be different, but that can only happen if the people who want it different join forces.’

Wim Bot, Fietrsbond

‘This stimulating book shows how the street can once again become a place to socialise.’

Maarten Ducrot, Dutch former cyclist and cycling commentator

‘The book offers many unprecedented insights into traffic and mobility, convincingly poses the question of how important mobility actually is and suggests an answer to that. Movement is a compelling thinker.’

Jury citation from the Brussels Prize 2021

‘A revolutionary view of mobility … Gives us the tools to campaign for something different.’

Lucy Siegle

‘Thalia Verkade is one of those people who continue digging where others would stop, before finally coming up with the most wonderful and surprising discoveries and insights.’

Joris Luyendijk, author and journalist

Our dependence on cars is damaging our health — and the planet’s. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities.

Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking the fundamental question: who do our streets belong to?

Although there have been experiments in decreasing traffic in city centres, and an increase in bike-friendly infrastructure, there is still a long way to go.

In this enlightening and provocative book, Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet confront their own underlying beliefs and challenge us to rethink our ideas about transport to put people at the centre of urban design.

‘These writers have the gift of looking again at things you thought you knew, like your own street, your bike or your life. This book is an infectious plea for a calmer, richer life.’

Arjen van Veelen, author

‘Alice in Trafficland.’

De Groene Amsterdammer

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Robert Visscher, NEMO Kennislkink

Edwin Kruiniger, NM Magazine

Wim Bot, Fietrsbond

‘This stimulating book shows how the street can once again become a place to socialise.’

Maarten Ducrot, Dutch former cyclist and cycling commentator

Jury citation from the Brussels Prize 2021

‘A revolutionary view of mobility … Gives us the tools to campaign for something different.’

Lucy Siegle

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Format:Paperback

Size: 210mm × 135mm

Extent:288pp

ISBN (13):9781922310798

RRP:$29.99

Pub date:31 May 2022

Rights Held: UK & Commonwealth + Europe

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AWARDS

2021 Brusseprijs for Best Journalistic Book of the Year - Winner

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AUTHORS

Thalia Verkade

Thalia Verkade (1979) lives in Rotterdam. She has been a staff writer and foreign correspondent for the Dutch national newspapers NRC Handelsblad and nrc.next. For the ad-free slow journalism platform De Correspondent she has written extensively about the topics she loves most: language, mobile technology, and technocracy.

Marco te Brömmelstroet

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 centres on the relationship between land use developments and mobility behaviour. 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. His ‘Fietsprofessor’ (The Cycling Professor) Twitter account has over 60,000 followers.

TRANSLATOR

Fiona Graham

Fiona Graham is a British literary translator, editor, and reviewer who has lived in Kenya, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, and Belgium. Her recent translations include Elisabeth Åsbrink’s 1947: when now begins, an English PEN award-winner longlisted for the Warwick Women in Translation Prize and the JQ Wingate Prize, and Torill Kornfeldt’s The Unnatural Selection of Our Species.

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