Bicycle urbanism : reimagining bicycle friendly cities
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Bicycle urbanism : reimagining bicycle friendly cities
(Urban planning and environment)
Routledge, 2020
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. Much of the discussion surrounding cycling has focused on bicycle facility design-how to best repurpose road infrastructure to accommodate bicycling. While part of the discussion has touched on culture, such as how to make bicycling a larger part of daily life, city design and planning have been sorely missing from consideration.
Whilst interdisciplinary in its scope, this book takes a primarily planning approach to examining active transportation, and especially bicycling, in urban areas. The volume examines the land use aspects of the city-not just the streetscape. Illustrated using a range of case studies from the USA, Canada, and Australia, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of key topics of concern around cycling in the city including: imagining the future of bicycle-friendly cities; integrating bicycling into urban planning and design; the effects of bike use on health and environment; policies for developing bicycle infrastructure and programs; best practices in bicycle facility design and implementation; advances in technology, and economic contributions.
Table of Contents
- Advancing Bicycle Urbanism, Rachel Berney
- 1. Bike paths to nowhere: Bicycle infrastructure that ignores the street network, Steven Fleming
- 2. Traffic signal equity: Crossing the street to active transportation, Cathy Tuttle
- 3. The role of personas in cycling advocacy, Robert W. Edmiston
- 4. Instagramming urban design along the Ohlone Greenway, Benedict Han
- 5. A look at bicycle commuting by low-income New Yorkers using the CEO Poverty Measure, Todd Seidel, Mark Levitan, Christine D'Onofrio, John Krampner, and Daniel Scheer
- 6. Middle modalism: The proliferation of e-bikes and implications for planning and urban design, Derek Chisholm and Justin Healy
- 7. Why we should stop talking about speed limits and start talking about speed, Arthur Slabosky
- 8. A framework to analyze the economic feasibility of cycling facilities, Mingxin Li and Ardeshir Faghri
- 9. Secure investment for active transport: Willingness to pay for secured bicycle parking in Montreal, Canada, Dea van Lierop, Brian H.Y. Lee, and Ahmed M. El-Geneidy
- 10. Site suitability and public participation: A study for a bike-sharing program in a college town, Yuwen Hou and Monica A. Haddad
- 11. How GPS route data collected from smartphones can benefit bicycle planning, Joel L. Meyer and Jennifer C. Duthie
- 12. Mapping GPS data and assessing mapping accuracy, Katie A. Kam, Joel L. Meyer, Jennifer C. Duthie, and Hamza Khan
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