Old Wheelways: Traces of Bicycle History on the Land

* Read * Old Wheelways: Traces of Bicycle History on the Land by Robert L. McCullough ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Old Wheelways: Traces of Bicycle History on the Land Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. Todays ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to 19th-century versions. In the later part of the 19th century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural lands

Author	:	Robert L. McCullough
Rating	:	4.18 (887 Votes)
Asin	:	B072J4CWH7
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Number of Pages	:	409 Pages
Publish Date	:	2013-09-30
Language	:	English

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Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to 19th-century versions. In the later part of the 19th century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys - in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths ("wheelways") - building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the 19th century to the history of American landscapes. The book is published by MIT Press.

More of a reference book than a narrative history. postcar More of a reference book than a narrative history. It's only scholarly move is to constantly claim that "scholars have overlooked the contributions of cyclists' perspectives on x," which it would have been better to just do without.. Bicycle with a Small "b," Landscape With a Capital "L" This book is a valuable bookend to James Longhurst's unfortunately named (but quite good) Bike Battles. Both ostensibly cover the same subject: the cycle path movement, which flourished briefly in the United States, especially in and around upstate New York, in the dying years of the great bicycle boom of 1895-1901. However, they treat the subject very differently. Longhurst covers it from the standpoint of the cyclists: what organizations they formed, who they lobbied, and