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John pucher is arguably the foremost american proponent of separate bicycling infrastructure. He also includes highlights from his new book city cycling with mit press, which provides an overview of cycling trends and policies in cities across the globe. Review of city cycling the future of cycling includes. While city cycling probably wont convince the most hardcore bike haters, it has the potential to help change the debate about how biking fits into the transportation system in countries such as the this thoroughly academic approach could be just what we need to move the conversation forward. A guide to todays urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling s health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics. The authors offer detailed examinations and illustrations of cycling conditions in different urban environments. Most cycling there is on shared pavements or quiet streets. The approach is academic, with full references for everything and some attempt at being comprehensive, and consequently a little bit dry.
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The book makes clear that successful promotion of city cycling depends on coordinating infrastructure, programs. The book is scheduled to be released in october 2012 as part of the mit press urban and industrial environments series. Jacobsen and harry rutter prevent or dissuade people from cycling. Overall, this is a timely and impressively researched book on the benefits of cycling presenting global evidence. John pucher and ralph buehler, the principle authors of city cycling, aim to portray recent trends in cycling, identify the most effective measures for increasing cycling levels, improve safety, and make cycling possible for all segments of society for those who are able. John pucher is professor in the department of urban planning at the bloustein school of planning and policy at rutgers university. Discover book depositorys huge selection of john pucher books online. He was a professor at rutgers university from 1978 to 2014, conducting research on urban transportation in the united states, canada, australia, and europe. I really enjoyed this book as a reference manual for how to increase cycling in the city, how other countries integrate cycling, and as a quick reference for statistics. He is the coauthor of the urban transport crisis in europe and north america and the urban transportation system. City cycling is very much an organised book, not a collection of papers. City cycling edited by john pucher and ralph buehler a guide to todays urban cycling renaissance, with information on cyclings health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics. Rutgers professor and longtime bike researcher john pucher is in town for the bicycle urbanism symposium puchers research and the book he coauthored, city cycling, has been influential on shifting north american thinking about cycling away from fit, brave people biking in traffic or on skinny painted bike lanes toward people of all ages and abilities biking on lowstress streets and bike. His most recent book is entitled city cycling, published by mit press in 2012.
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