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- Book Title
- On Bicycles : A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
- ISBN
- 9780231182577
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231182570
ISBN-13
9780231182577
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8050034032
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
On Bicycles : a 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
Language
English
Subject
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Special Interest / Bicycling, General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Travel, Transportation, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-045873
Reviews
What we should take away from this illuminating history is that the bicycle has endured. Indeed, a new golden age may be on the horizon., Two hundred years ago, the first riding machines that resembled what would become bicycles began pouring into Manhattan, and New York City would never be the same again. On Bicycles is brilliantly researched, noting the battles against local government, sexism, the automobile, and the railways, as the bicycle fought its way to become more popular today than ever before. Vive le vélo!, In On Bicycles , Evan Friss fills in the missing chapters that bicycles hold in New York City's near-miraculous transportation history and shows how the city's streets are finally catching up with them., Witty and wise, engaged and engaging, surprising, fun and fabulous--I'm running out of adjectives to describe Evan Friss's wondrous new book. Move over Amsterdam: New York City is a bicycling city too, though with fits and starts, grunts and guffaws, and more than a handful of bike haters (some in high places). A great way to learn about the history of the city that never sleeps--and has never stopped arguing about its bicycles and bicyclists., On Bicycles is a joyful read and a welcome retreat from stodgy, jargon-filled historical treatments . . . Highly recommended., A superb history of New York's cycling cultures over the last two centuries, On Bicycles surveys the evolution of the bicycle in the city from urban menace and medium of feminist liberation to weekend joyride and mainstay of the transportation network. Written with verve and precision, it reads like a long glide down Broadway with the wind at your back, catching green light after green light., This social history of the transformation of New York's relationship to cycling is elegantly researched, gracefully written, and nearly as delightful as the bicycle itself., An essential contribution to multiple fields--New York history, transportation history, urban history, and planning history--this compelling and fascinating story takes you along with ease, artfully offering a barrage of digestible information, including previously unknown morsels. Even the most well-read New Yorkers, cyclists, and urban historians will find something new here.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
796.609747/1
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Rough Start 2. Up and Down 3. Moses 4. The Ban 5. Bloomberg Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
Synopsis
Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York's streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city's first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle's place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses--recreation, sport, transportation, business--but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles , Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city's changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s; peripheral, when Robert Moses's car-centric vision made room for bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed Koch's battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived 1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we know it today--veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle lanes--reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York City's people and its politics., Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles--and bicyclists--in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city's changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.
LC Classification Number
HE5737.F753 2021
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