A.A. Albert de la Bruheze

University of Twente | UT · Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS)

Munich has embraced cycling as a positive policy instrument, even taking on the mantle of Germany's cycling capital (Radlhaupstadt) in 2010. A remarkable turn of events. This richly illustrated book shows how until then, the city treated urban cyclists as a nuisance. Well into the 1980s, policymakers devoted their resources to automobility. Even t...

This paper presents concrete examples of possible directions for a sustainable future of fashion. Sustainability is a complex issue that affects all aspects of the fashion domain. From growing and sourcing cotton, to recycling fabrics, to second-hand-clothing, to even less polluting cleaning methods. Key factor that all these aspects have in common...

This chapter, in German, provides a historical explanation of the variety in the re-emergence of utilitarian cycling in European cities, with a focus on Munich.

From London and Paris to Barcelona and Berlin cities seek to boost cycling. Some cities manage to create a lasting result. In other cities, urban cycling hardly increases. This richly illustrated book shows why some capitals and business centers became real cycling cities, while others did not. The book analyzes 100 years of urban cycling‒policy, u...

There are different ways to tell stories with design. This paper shows possibilities of telling stories by envisioning the future. Overall, design has the very ability to envision, visualize and express things that do not exist yet. We introduce the Future Scenario Development Design methodology as a process for research through design. This method...

There are different ways to tell stories with design. This paper shows possibilities of telling stories by envisioning the future. Overall, design has the very ability to envision, visualize and express things that do not exist yet. We introduce the Future Scenario Development Design methodology as a process for research through design. This method...

After the Second World War, the United States played an active, direct role in Europe’s recovery and integration. The effort to modernize the European tourism industry—including its physical infrastructures—became a cornerstone of U.S. postwar foreign policy. The American goal was to create a single, open European market and a “modern consumer soci...

Did Nordic countries, linked by linguistic and long-term cultural, historical and commercial ties, develop a specific Nordic mode of mobility and tourism? To introduce and contextualise the articles in this issue that deal with this question, this article claims that this issue can be investigated fruitfully by focusing on the linkages between nati...

Guest Editor special section 'Nordic Tourism' in Journal of Tourism Industry, Vol.5, no.3, November 2013. "Did Nordic Countries, linked by linguistic and long-term cultural, historical and commercial ties, develop a specific Nordic mode of mobility and tourism? This issue is investigated by focussing on the linkages between national and transnation...

During their transnational circulation, bicycles became glocalized as local users tailored them to fit local laws, customs, user preferences and cultures. Bicycles thus acquired many different local meanings as users incorporated them into daily lifes and practices in diverse global settings. To show the importance of 'normalized use', i.e. rural b...

Today most cities emphasize the construction of separate bicycle lanes as a sure path toward sustainable urban mobility. Historical evidence shows a singular focus on building bicycle lanes without embedding them into a broader bicycle culture and politics is far too narrow. Bicycle lanes were never neutral, but contested from the start. Based on c...

This article reviews the literature on the relationship between consumption and technological development to understand the character of Europe's 20th-century trajectory, i.e. the hidden integration of Europe long before the formal process of unification started. Within the rich historiography, the paper focuses on the intersection between producti...

The History of Technology’s contribution to the history of the Netherlands. A response to remarks made by Karel Davids, Pim Kooij and Geert VanpaemelThe editors welcome the point emphasised in the reviews that the history of technology adds an extra dimension to the history of the Netherlands. The added value of the series is that it demonstrates h...

The contested modernisation of the Netherlands. An introduction to the series ‘Techniek in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw’History is a discipline that is divided up into different specialist areas. The realisation of the seven-volume series entitled ‘Technology in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century’ could be used to support this claim. Howev...

This article investigates the development of the Dutch milk chain in the 20th century, i.e. the development of a complicated socio-technical network linking production and consumption, often termed as the Milky Way. The development of this Milky Way will be investigated with respect to two sub-chains: the chain from dairy farms to dairy industry an...

Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers - in cafs, pubs, brasseries and restaurants. Globalization brought about changes in patterns of leisure and consumption, as well as a democratization of restaurant culture. But what if we open up this concept of ‘eating out’ to include any eating that takes place outside the home? What cultural shif...

The Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the post-war nuclear arms race with fission and fusion bombs have been the subject of many discussions and historical studies. In fact, these subjects, and the way in which they were generally dealt with, have led to retrospective distortion with respec...

Promotion of bicycle use is a policy goal of the Dutch Government. Within this policy the construction and improvement of the bicycle infrastructure was emphasised for a long time. It was expected that with the construction of bicycle paths the bicycle use would follow suit. Bicycle use did indeed increase but not as much as was expected. The quest...

Text in English with summary in Dutch. Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Twente, 1992. Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-242).