Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities

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Pedaling Revolution is essential reading for the approximately one million people who regularly ride their bike to work or on errands, for anyone engaged in transportation, urban planning, sustainability, and public healthaand for drivers trying to understand why theyare seeing so many cyclists. All will be interested in how urban bike activists are creating the future of how we travel and live in twenty-first-century cities.

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Library Journal (03/01/2009)
As Americans consider how to solve the problems of global warming, traffic congestion, high gas prices, and health problems linked to physical inactivity, bicycles have received a lot of attention. Mapes (senior political reporter, the "Oregonian") provides a deftly drawn portrait of contemporary bike culture and politics, together with a concise history of the bicycle's roots and its early influence on American society. He profiles bicycle use and transportation policy in Amsterdam, Portland, New York, and Davis, CA, to illustrate how regular bicycle riders, transportation officials, politicians, and grassroots activists have attempted to promote cycling as a way to calm traffic, boost inner-city development, aid public health, and decrease pollution, among other things. The book is readable and engaging, but perhaps the most compelling sections are the chapters on the safety and health aspects of bike riding and on efforts to encourage cycling among kids. Here Mapes weighs various methods of measuring traffic fatalities, considers the complex social effects of kids cycling to school, and details various theories about whether it is safer for commuters to ride in the street with cars or on separated bikeways. Highly recommended.Emily-Jane Dawson, Multnomah Cty. Lib., Portland, OR Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

ISBN: 0870714198 | EAN: 9780870714191
Publisher: Oregon State University Press  | Publication Date: March, 2009

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