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Overview""This book explores how bicycle infrastructure planning, once a fringe concern of progressive environmentalism, has become a key horizon of urban development. Using case studies from San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, and Philadelphia, it shows how bicycling has been redefined as critical to the competitive 21st century city, reinscribing race and class inequalities in mobility in the process""-- Full Product DetailsAuthor: John G. StehlinPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781517903800ISBN 10: 1517903807 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 01 October 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Vehicle for a New City 1. The City and the Cyclescape 2. The Bicycle and the Region in Post-Crisis America 3. Everyday Practices and the Social Infrastructure of Urban Cycling 4. Gentrification and the Changing Publics of Bicycle Infrastructure 5. Institutional Power, Intra-Class Conflict, and Complete Streets 6. Bicycle Sharing Systems as Already-Splintered Infrastructure Conclusion: Notes on a Passive Revolution in Mobility Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsIn a strong wake-up call to current cycling policy in North American cities, John G. Stehlin gives us the best study yet of why the bicycle is failing to meet its emancipatory potential. Focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit, and Philadelphia, he shows how business-friendly bike advocacy leads to an inequitable 'cyclescape' grounded in racialized disinvestment and green gentrification. Tracing developments from Critical Mass to wheelie crews, and from mobility-as-a-service to Vision Zero, this comparative study underlines how race, class, and gender are formed in relation to mobility practices in urban space. For anyone interested in mobility justice, this book is a necessary read. --Mimi Sheller, author of Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes Through rigorous empirical research and thoughtful analysis, John G. Stehlin illuminates the emergence of a complex politics of mobility that stems from the intersection of cycling and urban change. --Kathe Newman, Rutgers University This is an excellent investigation of the role of cycling in remaking of the street. With a close eye on the relationship between cycling and urban transformation in North America, John G. Stehlin offers a lucid and important analysis of how cycling becomes caught up in exclusionary relations between race, gentrification, and the city. Cycling becomes an infrastructure of both sustainability and economic exclusion. Yet, as Stehlin shows, it can also become part of a more hopeful and progressive politics for the city. --Colin McFarlane, Durham University Author InformationJohn G. Stehlin is research associate in the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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