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Bikenomics provides a surprising and compelling new perspective on the way we get around and on how we spend our money, as families and as a society. The book starts with a look at Americans' real transportation costs, and moves on to examine the current civic costs of our transportation system. Blue tells the stories of people, businesses, organizations, and cities who are investing in two-wheeled transportation. The multifaceted North American bicycle movement is revealed, with its contradictions, challenges, successes, and visions.

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I'd recommend this zine on its merits as a comic and as a snapshot of inner city American education. --Joshua Barton, Broken Pencil

Bikenomics will make you wonder how cities ever decided to plan for cars in the first place. Elly Blue provides practical advice for living a happier, healthier life on two wheels but also makes a compelling case for reconnecting with your community in a very authentic way. And she does it with a witty, persuasive voice that makes this refreshingly jargon-free book a pleasure to read. Alissa Walker, Urbanism Editor, Gizmodo Blue's book is rational, fully footnotedand, in the main, persuasive. Fast Company Blue's book helped me better frame my own reasons for riding, and got me thinking a lot about what a more bike-centered future could look like. It's a future, I realized, I'd really like to see. The Portland Mercury Elly Blue has written the Common Sense for the bicycling revolution. Like Tom Paine, Blue set out to show how truths we were raised to believestreets are for cars, bicycling is an intrusion, cars predominate because they make economic good senseare really assumptions that defy common sense. Bikenomics is fact-based but personal, serious but fun, well-researched but readable. It gives cycling advocates the talking points they need to show that the bicycle revolution is just common sense in action. Peter Norton, author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City In Bikenomics, Elly Blue powerfully demonstrates the economic benefits of making streets complete again, especially by investing in infrastructure to support the bicycle as a mode of transportation. With a focus on equity, Bikenomics builds a case for bicycle activism and bicycle planning as tools that can achieve a range of economic and quality of life goals and serves as a call and guide to action by illustrating how the benefits of bikability can be shared among bicyclists and motorists alike (and those who use both modes of transportation) and across socioeconomic classes. Julian Agyeman and Stephen Zavestoski, editors of Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices, and Possibilities A thorough dissection of assumptions about cycling that has much to say about what streets are and who they're for. JH Crawford, author of Carfree Cities

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Lisa Wilde is an artist and teacher who has taught at Wildcat Academy, a second-chance high school in New York City, for the past 16 years. Her work has appeared inAlive with Vigor, Kugelmas, Show & Tell, and Writing Disorder. She has presented workshops about her work across the country and has had one-woman shows at the Brooklyn Public Library and the Grace Institute in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn.

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