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The cycling city :

(Number (ISBN

022621091X

(Number (ISBN

9780226210919

Erroneous ISBN

9780226211077

Title Proper

The cycling city :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

bicycles and urban America in the 1890s /

First Statement of Responsibility

Evan Friss.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 267 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Historical studies of urban America

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- The rise of the cycling city -- The cyclists -- Rules of the road -- Good roads -- The bicycle paths (not) taken -- Riding for recreation and health -- Riding for utility: the commuters -- Riding for reform: wheelwomen -- The crash -- Epilogue.

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Text of Note

As Evan Friss shows in his mordant history of urban bicycling in the late nineteenth century, the bicycle has long told us much about cities and their residents. In a time when American cities were chaotic, polluted, and socially and culturally impenetrable, the bicycle inspired a vision of an improved city in which pollution was negligible, transport was noiseless and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country blurred. Friss focuses not on the technology of the bicycle but on the urbanisms that bicycling engendered. Bicycles altered the look and feel of cities and their streets, enhanced mobility, fueled leisure and recreation, promoted good health, and shrank urban spaces as part of a larger transformation that altered the city and the lives of its inhabitants, even as the bicycle's own popularity fell, not to rise again for a century. --Publisher's description.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Univ of Chicago Pr, Attn: John Kessler C/O Chicago Distribution Center 11030 Langley Ave, Chicago, IL, USA, 60628

Bicycle commuting-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Cycling-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Urban transportation-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Bicycle commuting.

Cycling.

Urban transportation.

United States.

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Friss, Evan

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20200822102021.0

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