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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2188yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Introduction by Marco te Brömmelstroet
  • Week 1 Intro: A Historical Perspective - Is cycling in the Dutch genes?
  • How the Dutch got their cycle paths
  • Paper discussion with Marco te Brömmelstroet
  • Why We Cycle: Egalitarian Society
  • Paper discussion with Marco te Brömmelstroet
  • Week 1 wrap-up with Pascal Boontje
Readings
  • Meet the team
  • Keep notes to prepare for your final assignment!
  • Content of Unraveling the Cycling City
  • Spanish course track
  • Support and feedback
  • First, a bit of history...
  • How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
  • Contested Spaces: Bicycle Lanes in Urban Europe, 1900-19954
  • Top down or bottom up?
  • The Prime Minister bikes to work
  • The rise and decline of national habitus: Dutch cycling culture and the shaping of national similarity
Practice exercises
  • Is cycling in the Dutch genes?
  • How the Dutch got their cycle paths
  • How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
  • Contested Spaces: Bicycle Lanes in Urban Europe, 1900-1995
  • Why We Cycle: Egalitarian Society
  • The Prime Minister bikes to work
  • The rise and decline of national habitus: Dutch cycling culture and the shaping of national similarity
  • The Historical Perspective

Videos
  • Week 2 Intro with Meredith Glaser
  • Why the Dutch ride bikes
  • Paper discussion with Luca Bertolini
  • Paper discussion with Lucas Harms
  • Week 2 wrap-up with Marco te Brömmelstroet
Readings
  • Cycling by the numbers
  • Comparing Cycling in European Countries
  • Urban development without more mobility by car – Lessons from Amsterdam, a multimodal urban region
  • Cycling, the long and short of it
  • Synergies from Improved Cycling-Transit Integration
  • As Easy As Riding A Bike: The Dutch supermarket
  • Spatial and social variations in cycling patterns in a mature cycling country exploring differences and trends
Practice exercises
  • Why the Dutch ride bikes
  • Comparing Cycling in European Countries
  • Urban development without more mobility by car – Lessons from Amsterdam, a multimodal urban region
  • Synergies from Improved Cycling-Transit Integration
  • As Easy As Riding A Bike: The Dutch supermarket
  • Spatial and social variations in cycling patterns in a mature cycling country exploring differences and trends
  • The urban environment

Videos
  • Week 3 Intro by Marco te Brömmelstroet
  • World's biggest bicycle study: The Bike Study Week in Amsterdam Region
  • Paper Discussion with George Liu
  • Presentation by George Liu
  • Week 3 wrap-up by Meredith Glaser
Readings
  • Behaviour on routes and at intersections
  • What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?
  • Urban Design: Is there a Distinctive View from the Bicycle?
  • Space, speed, and fairness
  • Arrogance of Space
  • Is there such a thing as a ‘fair’ distribution of road space?
  • Street design compared (optional)
  • Practitioners' perspective on user experience and design of cycle highways
Practice exercises
  • World's biggest bicycle study: The Bike Study Week in Amsterdam Region
  • What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?
  • Urban Design: Is there a Distinctive View from the Bicycle?
  • Is there such a thing as a ‘fair’ distribution of road space?
  • Practitioners' perspective on user experience and design of cycle highways
  • The street within a network

Videos
  • Week 4 Intro by Meredith Glaser
  • Cyclists behaving badly - Understanding cyclist disobedience in Amsterdam
  • Paper Discussion with George Liu
  • Why We Cycle excerpt: Interaction
  • Paper Discussion with Marco te Brömmelstroet
  • Wrapping up Chapter 4
  • Conclusion
Readings
  • Thinking critically about cyclist behavior and traffic rules
  • Giving way to deviant behaviour
  • Scofflaw bicycling: Illegal but rational
  • What is Social Capital?
  • The Handicap of a Head Start
  • Towards a pattern language for cycling environments: merging variables and narratives
Practice exercises
  • Cyclists behaving badly - Understanding cyclist disobedience in Amsterdam
  • Giving way to deviant behavior
  • Scofflaw bicycling: Illegal but rational
  • Why We Cycle excerpt: Interaction
  • The Handicap of a Head Start
  • Towards a pattern language for cycling environments
  • The co-evolution of design and behaviour

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