The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s
Evan Friss
Abstract
This book explores the American cycling city of the 1890s. It is a city lost in history, but one in which bicycles and their champions influenced urban design and city life. Paved roads, bicycle paths, and reconceived traffic laws signaled what many believed to be was the beginning of a new era. The millions of people who called themselves cyclists envisioned that the bicycle would usher in a city that was cleaner, easier to navigate and would give residents shorter commutes, new recreational outlets, and improved health, both mental and physical. What they did not anticipate was that bicycles ... More
Keywords: bicycles, cycling, history, urban, cities, 1890s
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226210919 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226211077.001.0001 |
