Summer school in Germany and The Netherlands

In Episode 152, I connect with Emily Stutts, a special education teacher from Brooklyn, NYC, who has become a passionate urbanist and advocate for creating safer, more activity-promoting streets and communities.

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Video Timeline
0:00:00 Cold Open - Rotterdam Trampoline
0:00:48 My introduction of the episode
0:01:20 Episode starts
0:03:18 Mention of Megan Ramey
0:03:47 Emily's Twitter page
0:04:35 Remaking the Street Summer School
0:06:04 The Car that Wanted to be a Bike Children's book
0:09:54 Arriving in Germany
0:13:32 Building the parklet
0:19:19 Train Tik Tok
0:22:16 Alexanderplein Tik Tok
0:25:07 Cargo bike package delivery logistics
0:26:18 Halsey Street redesign
0:30:45 Mindmapping change process
0:33:24 Summer Streets - Street Experiment/Play Street
0:35:55 Edwardo's interview
0:38:26 Rotterdam projects
0:49:00 Group photo
0:52:40 Freedom for children to roam - mention of Curbing Traffic book
0:53:49 Mention of Darcy Kitching and Tim Gill
0:54:27 Closing comments

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Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I’m a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

Since 2010, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."

The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

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Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022

[RAWDernison]

Learning from the Netherlands is like "drinking from a fire hose". Great remark, John.
Fun fact: the fire hose is a Dutch invention (1673).

[michaelledesma]

I feel like I'm on the same journey as Emily. It's a joy to see this movement grow.

[joshuawolf]

Great episode John! I'm also a teacher and looking to start a master's of public administration program in the next year. I love hearing you talk to other educators! I'm definitely going to look into one of the Dutch summer school programs you've highlighted on the show!

[een_schildpad]

Emily's excitement was really palpable in this interview. I had a huge smile on my face by the end to know there are other people excited about transforming our streets and cities safe, making them safe for children (and everyone else 🙂).

I love your point John about being a "fish in water" and not knowing how things could be different. That was very true for me... up until a little over a year ago I couldn't see, but now that I'm aware of the possibilities I feel almost radical in my desire to live in a people oriented city. I hope I'm not alone in that so we can effect that change here in the U.S.!

[colleenharrison]

Well done! What a great idea and concept.