Author: Amy Walker
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608680231
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Once the quaint province of European cities such as Amsterdam, daily cycling is currently exploding in North American cities. People ride folding bikes to the train, slip through traf?c on tricked-out ?xed-gears, and carry children and groceries on their utility bikes. Commuters are giving up their cars Monday through Friday, bike lanes and bike parking are sprouting up all over, and Talking Head David Byrne has designed arty bike racks for various New York City neighborhoods. It’s healthy for riders and clean for the environment, but is it fun? Amy Walker, who has been at the forefront of the urban cycling trend, knows that the answer is yes. She presents stories by a diverse group of cycling enthusiasts and activists that, accompanied by the illustrations of bike culture artist Matt Fleming, show readers why. They say you never forget how to ride a bike; this collection helps us remember why we ride.
On Bicycles
Author: Amy Walker
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608680231
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Once the quaint province of European cities such as Amsterdam, daily cycling is currently exploding in North American cities. People ride folding bikes to the train, slip through traf?c on tricked-out ?xed-gears, and carry children and groceries on their utility bikes. Commuters are giving up their cars Monday through Friday, bike lanes and bike parking are sprouting up all over, and Talking Head David Byrne has designed arty bike racks for various New York City neighborhoods. It’s healthy for riders and clean for the environment, but is it fun? Amy Walker, who has been at the forefront of the urban cycling trend, knows that the answer is yes. She presents stories by a diverse group of cycling enthusiasts and activists that, accompanied by the illustrations of bike culture artist Matt Fleming, show readers why. They say you never forget how to ride a bike; this collection helps us remember why we ride.
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608680231
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Once the quaint province of European cities such as Amsterdam, daily cycling is currently exploding in North American cities. People ride folding bikes to the train, slip through traf?c on tricked-out ?xed-gears, and carry children and groceries on their utility bikes. Commuters are giving up their cars Monday through Friday, bike lanes and bike parking are sprouting up all over, and Talking Head David Byrne has designed arty bike racks for various New York City neighborhoods. It’s healthy for riders and clean for the environment, but is it fun? Amy Walker, who has been at the forefront of the urban cycling trend, knows that the answer is yes. She presents stories by a diverse group of cycling enthusiasts and activists that, accompanied by the illustrations of bike culture artist Matt Fleming, show readers why. They say you never forget how to ride a bike; this collection helps us remember why we ride.
On Bicycles
Author: Evan Friss
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231544243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231544243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
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.
Tariff Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher:
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Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
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Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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The Pacific Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Complete Digest of All Lawyers Reports Annotated
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2524
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2524
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The modern Bicycle
Author: Rider Dealer and Makerr
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Traffic World and Traffic Bulletin
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
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Iron Age
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Category : Hardware
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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Category : Hardware
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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The Lawyers Reports Annotated, Book 1-70
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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