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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Friss, Evan
Titre(s) : The cycling city [Texte imprimé] : bicycles and urban America in the 1890s / Evan Friss
Publication : Chicago : The university of Chicago press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : x, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Historical studies of urban America
Lien à la collection : Historical studies of urban America
Comprend : Introduction ; The rise of the cycling city ; The cyclists ; Rules of the road
; Good roads ; The bicycle paths (not) taken ; Riding for recreation and health
; Riding for utility: the commuters ; Riding for reform: wheelwomen ; The crash
; Epilogue.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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. --Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Cyclisme -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Vie urbaine -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226210919. - ISBN 022621091X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44442075x
Notice n° :
FRBNF44442075
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
