Bicycle City : Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future

Name: Bicycle City : Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future
Brand: Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press

Bicycle CityRiding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future\nAuthor(s): Dan Piatkowski\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Island Press, United States\nImprint: Island Press\nISBN-13: 9781642833072, 978-1642833072\nSynopsis\nIt took an oil crisis in the 1970s for the Dutch to realise that they simply couldnt 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 bikeboom is one of the very few bright spots in an otherwise terrible time and an opportunity we cannot waste. 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 futur, where cities are vibrant, with access to everything we need close by, may be less bike-centric th.