This class looks at one and a half centuries of United States cycling history. It will trace the origins and early years of cycling in the U.S., its transformation from a bourgeois activity into a quotidian mobility. We will scrutinize the decline of cycling as a result of the rapid rise of automobility and the “bicycle renaissance” of the 1970s, the culture of bike messengers in the 80s and the bike ban in Manhattan as well as more recent forms of bicycle cultures (e.g. critical mass events), many of which are closely associated with environmentalist ideas and practices. business, recreational forms of cycling such as mountainbiking and at cycling as a sport.
- Trainer/in: Uwe Lübken