Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling by Carlton Reid

Author:Carlton Reid [Reid, Carlton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Architecture, Bicycles, General, Urban & Land Use Planning, Transportation, Sustainability & Green Design
ISBN: 9781610918169
Google: nq-hDgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2017-06-15T23:41:10.614520+00:00

IN 1972, University of Montana students could choose from geology, psychology, biology, or—new for that year—bikeology. “And for a full credit, too,” one newspaper stated, adding that this was “just another example of America’s love affair with the bicycle… ” Students could even dress the part, for “special bikewear for both sexes is found in the smart shops of every college town.” At the University of Iowa at Ames, the “three most popular subjects on campus were social change, bicycling, and sex, in that order.” These university courses—and there were others at the Universities of Texas, Utah, and Oregon—studied the creation of bikeway masterplans, including “how to get bikeway legislation passed” and “how to integrate bikeway systems into urban planning.”

The term bikeology wasn’t coined in the 1970s—it dates to the 1940s as a school subject and was used even earlier than that by itinerant singer-songwriters—but the counter-cultural ecological awakening in the 1960s and 1970s gave currency to the word with its fortuitous mix of bike and ecology. It was used by city planner and landscape architect Ken Kolsbun, who said he wanted “massive funding for bikeways, traffic control, and cycle-storage facilities.” He founded Friends of Bikeology in 1971 from his home in the Santa Barbara foothills. Forty volunteers, including his wife Jannice, organized events across the United States and distributed the members’ magazine, Serendipity.

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