Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities

Mapes, Jeff

ISBN 10: 0870714198 / ISBN 13: 9780870714191

Verlag: Oregon State University Press (edition Updated), 2009

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
• Verlag: Oregon State University Press (edition Updated)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0870714198
• ISBN-13: 9780870714191
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: Updated.
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

In a world of growing traffic congestion, expensive oil, and threats of cataclysmic climate change, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on the streets of urban cityscapes. In Pedaling Revolution, Jeff Mapes explores the growing urban bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities across the U.S. He rides with bike advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the everyday folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Mapes, a seasoned political journalist and long-time bike commuter, explores the growth of bicycle advocacy while covering such issues as the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling for short urban trips. His rich cast of characters includes Noah Budnick, a young bicycle advocate in New York who almost died in a crash near the Brooklyn Bridge, and Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN), who took to bicycling in his fifties and helped unleash a new flood of federal money for bikeways. Chapters set in Chicago and Portland show how bicycling has became a political act, with seemingly dozens of subcultures, and how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are seizing streets back from motorists. 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 health, nd for drivers trying to understand why they?re 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeff Mapes is a senior political reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Previously, Jeff covered state and national politics for the <i>Oregonian</i> for nearly 32 years. He has covered Congress, state government, and numerous local, state, and national campaigns. He is also author of the blog Jeff Mapes on Politics. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a longtime bike commuter.