Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Birk, Mia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594857601 ISBN 13: 9781594857607

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 2012

Synopsis

* New edition includes "50 Keys to Transforming Your Community," a detailed checklist for communities trying to adapt bike-friendly and more sustainable policies
* Successful in the first self-published edition, this new edition will now be available to book and outdoor retailers for the first time

Joyride tells the inspiring story of Mia Birk's twenty-year crusade to integrate bicycling into daily life. With only table scraps of funding, Birk led a revolution that helped grow Portland, Oregon, into the country's premier cycling city. She then hit the road, teaching communities how to incorporate cycling into their civic DNA to make their towns healthier, safer, and more livable. Through a panoply of hilarious and poignant stories, Birk takes readers on a rollercoaster journey of global and local discovery, while bringing into sharp focus some of the planet's most pressing and hotly debated energy and transportation issues, policies, shortcomings, and solutions. Her funny, touching, and instructive Joyride offers hope and experienced how-to advice to anyone interested in changing our world for the better—one pedal stroke at a time.

About this title

About the Author

Mia Birk is CEO and principal at Alta Planning + Design, with
20 years experience in sustainable transportation focused on
pedestrian, bicycle, trail, and greenway planning, design, and
implementation. She is also an adjunct professor at Portland State
University, where she co-founded the Initiative for Bicycle and
Pedestrian Innovation in the College of Urban Studies. She has also
served as the City of Portland's bicycle program manager.

Joe Kurmaskie is the best-selling author of Metal Cowboy,Momentum Is Your Friend, and Mud, Sweat and Gears. He
contributes to Bicycling Magazine, Men's Journal, and The New
York Times. Kurmaskie resides in Portland.

Review

A witty, poignant memoir from one of the most important figures in America's urban bicycling renaissance. --Jeff Mapes: Author of Pedaling Revolution

Anyone interested in changing their life or community for the better is going to love Joyride. It tells the story of how we transformed Portland into a livable, thriving cycling mecca and Mia Birk is the right person to tell it. --Earl Blumenauer, Member of Congress

Mia Birk helped shape remarkable transportation changes in Portland that have made it the #1 cycling city in the country. Joyride is a great chronicle of the vision and tenacity that it takes to transform a city's mindset and infrastructure, and is a great handbook for those of us who want to bring change to our own cities. --Angela Hunt, Dallas, Texas City Council

About this edition

• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1594857601
• ISBN 13: 9781594857607
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240