Bicycle economics. How cycling is changing the city and us. Blue E.

How to turn a city opposed to the development of bicycle infrastructure into one of the most convenient sites for cyclists in the world? What arguments can and should be given to save the townspeople from prejudices and stereotypes associated with the cycle -train? What economic, environmental and social advantages does a bicycle have?

Ellie Blu, standing at the source of cycling in Portland (Oregon), now a city with an exemplary bicycle infrastructure, gives detailed answers to these questions in its book. BD also describes the positive experience of the well -known “bicycle” cities - Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Utrecht to which it was inspired.

“Bicycle economics”, who withstood two publications in the United States, tells how to make a bicycle an incompetitive part of public transport and strengthen it role in the economy of the city. The book will be interesting to the widest reader audience.