Dan Piatkowski is associate professor of Integrated Land Use and Transportation Planning at Oslo Metropolitan University. Before moving to Norway, Dan taught urban planning at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Savannah State University, and worked in planning in Colorado and New Mexico. He has authored many articles and co-authored the book Bicycling for Transportation: An Evidence-Base for Communities.
Description
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Bicycle City
Chapter 1: The Pandemic and the Bicycle Boom
Chapter 2: E-Bikes: Changing the Game
Chapter 3: Cargo Bikes: Big, Slow, and Revolutionary
Chapter 4: Micromobility: Smaller, Cheaper, and More Fun Than Cars
Chapter 5: The Urban Bias in Bicycling
Conclusion: The Path to the Bicycle City
Epilogue
Notes
About the Author
Reviews
"If cycle tracks will abound in utopia, Daniel Piatkowski’s optimistic-but-realistic roadmap offers the directions cities need not to make themselves better for bikes, but to make themselves better with bikes. Inspiring readers to think beyond the status quo, Bicycle City offers the tools we need to free ourselves and our communities from the car and chart a path to a fairer and brighter future."
-Melissa and Chris Bruntlett, authors of Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in our Lives
"Bicycle City is the book for city lovers, especially those that are disenchanted with the snail’s pace of efforts to win back cities from the destructive vise grip of auto domination. Dan draws on his professional training, his eclectic interests, and his vast experience living in cities of all types to produce a book that is both highly accessible and really enjoyable. He offers hope that change is possible and lays out pragmatic steps for the type of actions that can be applied anywhere to make cities more equitable, more resilient, more ecologically sound and, most of all, more livable."
-Norman W. Garrick, Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut