Rob reviewed Movement by Thalia Verkade
Well researched and easy to read
4 stars
I feared the book might be more "academic" and quite dry, but it was actually well paced and easy to read. If you like the YouTube channel NotJustBikes then you'll like this book as well. It's focused on the Netherlands and to some extent belgium (the author lives in Rotterdam), but it can be easily translated to other countries.
It shows how the "way things are" is a deliberate choice and that things can and should be challenged when people are treated as 2nd class citizens to cars. They also go further and explain that just using bike lanes everywhere doesn't solve the underlying issue of how to make a place more liveable, a stream of electric bike riders can be just as daunting as a stream of cars.
