The source I'd start with, for historical background is Glen Norcliffe 'The Ride To Modernity' (York Univ. Press). I think that your premise is a bit questionable, Canada v Copenhagen seems a bit disproportionate - Europe is somewhat larger than the Danish capital and has plenty of examples of cycle-unfriendly infrastructure geared solely towards motor vehicles. Canada, it's a big place with quite extreme climate that is not really cycle friendly on a pan-national basis, it's a fairly dodgy thing to try to compare it to a single European city!
Nicholas Oddy.
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Date: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 14:57
Subject: Another question for help :)
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selectName: Ms.
Last Name: Falsing
First Name: Kira
Street: 308 Wharncliffe
Zip: N6G 1E2
Town: London
Country: Canada
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Relationship: I'm writing an article about the main differences between
North America (Canada) and Europe (Copenhagen), when it comes to bicycling.
Why it's so hard to incorporate bicycles in Canadian traffic, and the
historical and geographical reasons for this.
So I have some questions, that I was hoping you could help me with.
Is the reasons to be found in the geographical background, like North
America is a much 'newer' world than Europe, so they just builds roads
immediately, beause of the invension of the automobile at that time, or is
it rather a cultural thing like a fascination in cars and big machines?
Hope to hear from you and that you can enlighten me or suggest some articles
or websites to look at. the article will also include the the history of the
bicycle as transportation.
Best
Kira Falsing
University of Western Ontario
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