{"product_id":"pedaling-revolution-jeff-mapes-9780870714191","title":"Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpdated Edition includes a new epilogue by the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world of increasing traffic congestion, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on city streets. Pedaling Revolution explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom traffic-dodging bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the every-day folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America's most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A growing number of Americans, mounted on their bicycles like some new kind of urban cowboy, are mixing it up with swift, two-ton motor vehicles as they create a new society on the streets. They're finding physical fitness, low-cost transportation, environmental purity--and, still all too often, Wild West risks of sudden death or injury.\" \u003c\/i\u003e--from the introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Mapes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870714198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870714191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oregon State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2009 pg. 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/31\/2009 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/07\/2009 pg. 18","brand":"Jeff Mapes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052739260671,"sku":"9780870714191","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41a536dc-2263-4f82-bed2-74080d8a6428.jpg?v=1685020470","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pedaling-revolution-jeff-mapes-9780870714191","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}