Ruth Oldenziel: There’s No Such Thing as “Europe”

This is a conversation with Ruth Oldenziel, an emeritus professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology and an expert on the history of technology. Ruth is the program leader of the Cycling Cities Project, a research initiative to understand what has worked and what hasn't to make bike transportation a reality in cities across the globe. I wanted to talk to Ruth about that research, how some European cities have succeeded and others haven't, and to dispel the notion that the Dutch are genetically predisposed to create bike-friendly cities.