City Cycling
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2012
Summary
A guide to today’s urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling’s health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics.
Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustain…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262517812 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262517817 |
| Author: | John Pucher, Ralph Buehler |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Urban and Industrial Environments |
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Critics Review
While City Cycling probably won’t convince the most hard-core bike haters, it has the potential to help change the debate about how biking fits into the transportation system in countries such as the U.S., where it has traditionally been perceived as marginal. This thoroughly academic approach could be just what we need to move the conversation forward.
—Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic CitiesAbout The Author
John Pucher
John Pucher is Professor Emeritus in the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is coeditor of City Cycling (MIT Press). Ralph Buehler is Professor and Chair of Urban Affairs and Planning in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech’s Research Center in Arlington, Virginia. He is coeditor of City Cycling (MIT Press). John Pucher is Professor Emeritus in the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is coeditor of City Cycling (MIT Press). Ralph Buehler is Professor and Chair of Urban Affairs and Planning in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech’s Research Center in Arlington, Virginia. He is coeditor of City Cycling (MIT Press).
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