The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure
Spaces and (In)Equality
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2020
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-4473-4515-2 (ISBN)
Description
Provides a critical examination of existing cycling structures alongside current policies and practices used to promote cycling in Europe. Considering the cultural politics of infrastructure, urban space wars and questions of safety and risk, it provides policy solutions for sustainable cities. Contributors show infrastructural provision to be an intensely political act and its meaning variable according to larger political processes and contexts.
Reviews / Votes
"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 "In a day and age where human-powered mobility modes are praised for their sustainable potential, it is sobering to read this research showing the contested and stratified nature of velomobility across cities and societies." Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University "An exciting and illuminating up and down ride through cycling infrastructures, policies and bike practices around different cities in the world."Professor Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University, Denmark.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
28 s/w Abbildungen, 10 s/w Tabellen
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-4515-2 (9781447345152)
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Persons
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
Peter Cox is a Professor at the Department of Social and Political Science, University of Chester, UK
Content
Introduction
Peter Cox and Till Koglin
Chapter 1 Theorising infrastructure: a politics of spaces and edges
Peter Cox
Chapter 2 The cultural politics of infrastructure: the case of Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg, South Africa
Njogu Morgan
Chapter 3 Spatial dimensions of the marginalisation of cycling - marginalisation through rationalisation?
Till Koglin
Chapter 4 Mental barriers in planning for cycling
Tadej Brezina, Ulrich Leth and Helmut Lemmerer
Chapter 5 Safety, risk and road traffic danger: towards a transformational approach to the dominant ideology
John Whitelegg
Chapter 6 What constructs a Cycle City? A comparison of policy narratives in Newcastle and Bremen
Katja Leyendecker
Chapter 7 Hard Work in Paradise. The contested making of Amsterdam as a cycling city
Fred Feddes, Marjolein de Lange & Marco te Broemmelstroet
Chapter 8 Conflictual Politics of Sustainability: cycling organisations and the OEresund crossing
Martin Emanuel
Chapter 9 Velomobility in Copenhagen - a perfect world?
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Chapter 10 Navigating cycling infrastructure in Sofia, Bulgaria
Anna Plyushteva and Andrew Barnfield
Chapter 11 Cycling advocacy in Sao Paulo: influence and effects in politics
Leticia Lindenberg Lemos
Conclusions
Till Koglin and Peter Cox
Peter Cox and Till Koglin
Chapter 1 Theorising infrastructure: a politics of spaces and edges
Peter Cox
Chapter 2 The cultural politics of infrastructure: the case of Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg, South Africa
Njogu Morgan
Chapter 3 Spatial dimensions of the marginalisation of cycling - marginalisation through rationalisation?
Till Koglin
Chapter 4 Mental barriers in planning for cycling
Tadej Brezina, Ulrich Leth and Helmut Lemmerer
Chapter 5 Safety, risk and road traffic danger: towards a transformational approach to the dominant ideology
John Whitelegg
Chapter 6 What constructs a Cycle City? A comparison of policy narratives in Newcastle and Bremen
Katja Leyendecker
Chapter 7 Hard Work in Paradise. The contested making of Amsterdam as a cycling city
Fred Feddes, Marjolein de Lange & Marco te Broemmelstroet
Chapter 8 Conflictual Politics of Sustainability: cycling organisations and the OEresund crossing
Martin Emanuel
Chapter 9 Velomobility in Copenhagen - a perfect world?
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Chapter 10 Navigating cycling infrastructure in Sofia, Bulgaria
Anna Plyushteva and Andrew Barnfield
Chapter 11 Cycling advocacy in Sao Paulo: influence and effects in politics
Leticia Lindenberg Lemos
Conclusions
Till Koglin and Peter Cox