Originally Posted by
genec
I have and have read both Forester's
Effective Cycling and Hurst's
The Art of Urban Cycling: Lessons from the Street. I find the latter far more readable, and far more contemporary.
I also find it somewhat interesting that both Forester and John Franklin, both from the other side of the pond, have found it "necessary" to write books on cycling.
On the other hand, I would love to see a peer review of Forester's work by Hurst, Franklin and John Allen... the latter who wrote "Street Smarts" which IS ONLINE.
http://www.bikexprt.com/streetsmarts/
Of course, for balance, in a peer review, I would also like to see
Pucher who wrote
Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany and Jeffery Hiles on that committee too.
Pucher has written several other papers regarding cycling... Which are available at his web site... and Hiles wrote
Listening to Bike Lanes, which is an attempt to get beyond the "feud" and look at what works and what doesn't.
I take issue with your statement that: "Pucher who wrote 'Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany' [and] ... several other papers regarding cycling..." I have read two (or three ?) of Pucher's papers on his favorite subject, and I have never found any information regarding cycling. And when Pucher has conducted public correspondence on the subject of cycling, he has shown that he knows nothing beyond the most extreme of the common superstitions. Pucher's sources and subject are governmental reports concerning bicycle transportation, which is not cycling, but only a biased, limited, and self-serving version of actuality.