The Cycling City - Bicycles And Urban America In The 1890s

Evan Friss

The Cycling City - Bicycles And Urban America In The 1890s
  • ISBN: 9780226210919
  • Rating: N/A of 5
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Published Date: 2015-11-04
  • Number of Page: 279
  • Category: History

As Evan Friss shows in his mordant history of urban bicycling in the late nineteenth century, the bicycle has long told us much about cities and their residents. In a time when American cities were chaotic, polluted, and socially and culturally impenetrable, the bicycle inspired a vision of an improved city in which pollution was negligible, transport was noiseless and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country blurred. Friss focuses not on the technology of the bicycle but on the urbanisms that bicycling engendered. Bicycles altered the look and feel of cities and their streets, enhanced mobility, fueled leisure and recreation, promoted good health, and shrank urban spaces as part of a larger transformation that altered the city and the lives of its inhabitants, even as the bicycle's own popularity fell, not to rise again for a century...

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