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On Bicycles - A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City (Paperback)
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On Bicycles - A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City (Paperback)
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Loot Price R578
Discovery Miles 5 780
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Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York
transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to
New York's streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it
taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the
city's first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around
the bicycle's place in city life have been so persistent not just
because of its many uses-recreation, sport, transportation,
business-but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are.
In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history
of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the
city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city's
changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics
since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn
carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s;
peripheral, when Robert Moses's car-centric vision made room for
bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed
Koch's battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived
1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we
know it today-veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle
lanes-reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York
City's people and its politics.
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