Politics of Cycling Infrastructure

Spaces and (In)Equality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

This book offers a critical examination of existing cycling structures and the current policy and practices used to promote cycling. An international range of contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of the complex cultural politics of infrastructural provision and interrogate the pervasive bias against cyclists in city planning and transport systems across the globe. Infrastructural planning is revealed to be an intensely political act and its meaning variable according to larger political processes and contexts. The book also considers questions surrounding safety and risk, urban space wars and sustainable futures, connecting this to broader questions about citizenship and justice in contemporary cities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-29
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447345152

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Till Koglin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering at Lund University.Peter Cox is a Professor at the Department of Social and Political Science, University of Chester, UK

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“Full of compelling insights from some of the leading cycling researchers in the world, this volume brings the politics of infrastructure to bear in vibrant case studies of why and how cities continue to marginalize cycling despite its many known benefits.” Mimi Sheller, Drexel University

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPeter Cox and Till KoglinChapter 1 Theorising infrastructure: a politics of spaces and edgesPeter Cox Chapter 2 The cultural politics of infrastructure: the case of Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg, South AfricaNjogu MorganChapter 3 Spatial dimensions of the marginalisation of cycling – marginalisation through rationalisation?Till KoglinChapter 4 Mental barriers in planning for cyclingTadej Brezina, Ulrich Leth and Helmut Lemmerer Chapter 5 Safety, risk and road traffic danger: towards a transformational approach to the dominant ideologyJohn WhiteleggChapter 6 What constructs a Cycle City? A comparison of policy narratives in Newcastle and BremenKatja LeyendeckerChapter 7 Hard Work in Paradise. The contested making of Amsterdam as a cycling city Fred Feddes, Marjolein de Lange & Marco te BrömmelstroetChapter 8 Conflictual Politics of Sustainability: cycling organisations and the Öresund crossing Martin EmanuelChapter 9 Vélomobility in Copenhagen – a perfect world?Malene Freudendal-PedersenChapter 10 Navigating cycling infrastructure in Sofia, BulgariaAnna Plyushteva and Andrew BarnfieldChapter 11 Cycling advocacy in São Paulo: influence and effects in politicsLetícia Lindenberg LemosConclusionsTill Koglin and Peter Cox