The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure
eBook - ePub

The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure

Spaces and (In)Equality

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure

Spaces and (In)Equality

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure by Cox, Peter,Koglin, Till,Peter Cox,Till Koglin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & City Planning & Urban Development. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures, tables and box
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Theorising infrastructure: a politics of spaces and edges
  9. 2. The cultural politics of infrastructure: the case of Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg, South Africa
  10. 3. Spatial dimensions of the marginalisation of cycling – marginalisation through rationalisation?
  11. 4. Mental barriers in planning for cycling
  12. 5. Safety, risk and road traffic danger: towards a transformational approach to the dominant ideology
  13. 6. What constructs a cycle city? A comparison of policy narratives in Newcastle and Bremen
  14. 7. Hard work in paradise. The contested making of Amsterdam as a cycling city
  15. 8. Conflictual politics of sustainability: cycling organisations and the Øresund crossing
  16. 9. Vélomobility in Copenhagen – a perfect world?
  17. 10. Navigating cycling infrastructure in Sofia, Bulgaria
  18. 11. Cycling advocacy in São Paulo: influence and effects in politics
  19. Conclusion. politicising infrastructure or sustainable mobility?