The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s

by Evan Friss

Book Overview

Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles--where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them--have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however, that these questions are more than a century old...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621091X
• ISBN13: 9780226210919
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 10.3"