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Boston's Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance - Cultural Change on Two Wheels (Hardcover)
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Boston's Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance - Cultural Change on Two Wheels (Hardcover)
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At the end of the nineteenth century, cycling's popularity surged
in the Boston area, but by 1900, the trend faded. Within the next
few decades, automobiles became commonplace and roads were
refashioned to serve them. Lorenz J. Finison argues that bicycling
witnessed a renaissance in the 1970s as concerns over physical and
environmental health coalesced. Whether cyclists hit the roads on
their way to work or to work out, went off-road in the mountains or
to race via cyclocross and BMX, or took part in charity rides,
biking was back in a major way. Finison traces the city's cycling
history, chronicling the activities of environmental and social
justice activists, stories of women breaking into male-dominated
professions by becoming bike messengers and mechanics, and
challenges faced by African American cyclists. Making use of
newspaper archives, newly discovered records of local biking
organizations, and interviews with Boston-area bicyclists and bike
builders, Boston's Twentieth Century Bicycling Renaissance brings
these voices and battles back to life.
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