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Bicycle City : Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future, Paperback / softback Book

Bicycle City : Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future Paperback / softback

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It took an oil crisis in the 1970s for the Dutch to realise that they simply couldn´t afford to live without bicycles, and todaythe Dutch lead the world in urban cycling.

Fifty years later, another crisis, the pandemic, has led to a boom in bicyclingand a radical rethinking of the future of urban mobility, demonstrating the possibility of a car-free urban future.

Thepandemic “bikeboom” is one of the very few bright spots in an otherwise terrible time – and an opportunity we cannotwaste.

In Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future cycling expert Daniel Piatkowski argues that the bicycle is the besttool that we have to improve our cities.

The car-free urban futur, where cities are vibrant, with access to everything weneed close by, may be less bike-centric than we think.

But bikes are a crucial first step to getting us out of cars. Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes.

Piatkowski offers a vision for the car-free urban future that so many are trying to create, with no shortage of pragmatic lessons to get there.

Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people.

Cargo bikes, with electric assistance, are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight.

At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedal-powered cities. Bicycle City brings together the latest research with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world to showreaders how to harness the post-pandemic bikeboom.

Piatkowski illustrates how the future of bicycling will facilitate thenecessary urban transitions to mitigate the impending climate crisis and support just and equitable transport systems.

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