Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road [Audiobook] download free by James Longhurst
- Listen audiobook: Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road
- Author: James Longhurst
- Release date: 2017/5/12
- Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780295742663
- Rating: 7.62 of 10
- Votes: 359
- Review by: Josephine Thao
- Review rating: 7.48 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/3
- Duration: 3H52M35S in 256 kbps (61.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Vorbis, FLAC, WMA, WAV, Shorten, MP3, MPEG-4 SLS, MPEG4 (compression CPIO, AZW, ZIP, TGZ, RAR, TAR.7Z)
- Total pages original book: 306
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 22M41S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road. Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the bicycle through popular songs, merit badge pamphlets, advertising, films, newspapers and sitcoms. Those associations shaped the actions of government and the courts when they intervened in bike policy through lawsuits, traffic control, road building, taxation, rationing, import tariffs, safety education and bike lanes from the 1870s to the 1970s.Today, cycling in American urban centers remains a challenge as city planners, political pundits, and residents continue to argue over bike lanes, bike-share programs, law enforcement, sustainability, and public safety. Combining fascinating new research from a wide range of sources with a true passion for the topic, Longhurst shows us that these battles are nothing new; in fact they're simply a continuation of the original battle over who is - and isn't - welcome on our roads.Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNleJ0tDvqg
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of The Americas, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Transport Industries, Transportation Books, Road & Motor Vehicles, Cycling, Urban & Municipal Planning
- Download servers: BitShare, Torrent, Microsoft OneDrive, LimeTorrents, MEGA. Compressed in CPIO, AZW, ZIP, TGZ, RAR, TAR.7Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 24.74 USD
- Dimensions: 140x216x20.32mm
- Weight: 363g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Seattle, United States
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