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\n It took an oil crisis in the 1970s for the Dutch to realize that they simply couldn\u00b4t afford to live without bicycles, and today the Dutch lead the world in urban cycling. Fifty years later, another crisis, the pandemic, has led to a boom in bicycling and a radical rethinking of the future of urban mobility, demonstrating the possibility of a car-free urban future. The pandemic \u201cbikeboom\u201d is one of the very few bright spots in an otherwise terrible time \u2013 and an opportunity we cannot waste. The climate crisis is all too real, the inequities in our cities too severe, to allow the US to backslide to the status quo of car-dependence.
In Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future cycling expert Daniel Piatkowski argues that the bicycle is the best tool that we have to improve our cities. The car-free urban future\u2014where cities are vibrant, with access to everything we need close by\u2014may be less bike-centric than we think. But bikes are a crucial first step to getting Americans out of cars. Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes.
Piatkowski offers a vision for the car-free urban future that so many Americans are trying to create, with no shortage of pragmatic lessons to get there. Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people. Cargo bikes, with electric assistance, are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight. At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedal-powered cities.
Bicycle City brings together the latest research with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world to show readers how to harness the post-pandemic bikeboom. Piatkowski illustrates how the future of bicycling will facilitate the necessary urban transitions to mitigate the impending climate crisis and support just and equitable transport systems.
ASIN \u200f : \u200e B0CYQWG7PM
Publisher \u200f : \u200e Island Press
Accessibility \u200f : \u200e Learn more
Publication date \u200f : \u200e May 23, 2024
Language \u200f : \u200e English
File size \u200f : \u200e 3.1 MB
Screen Reader \u200f : \u200e Supported
Enhanced typesetting \u200f : \u200e Enabled
X-Ray \u200f : \u200e Not Enabled
Word Wise \u200f : \u200e Enabled
Print length \u200f : \u200e 194 pages
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-1642833089
Page Flip \u200f : \u200e Enabled
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