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Thalia Verkade: Het recht van de snelste (Dutch language, 2020, De Correspondent)

From traffic lights to traffic jams, from a street full of stationary cars to bicycle …

Gateway book to a perspective on urbanism

English title: Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives German title: Gesellschaft in Bewegung

This is aimed at people who want to explore a different way of thinking about streets and the distribution of public spaces to different forms of transportation. Now, 5 years later, a lot has changed and urbanism is getting stronger in the public consciousness. If you're already invested, this book will still provide a fascinating account on how the violent protests that made Dutch streets the way they are got swept so much under the rug.

If you have lost a loved one to a car crash, I'd urge you to proceed with caution, this book has an entire chapter of gory details in it about crashes and how we as a society keep looking away.