One Less Car
Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
Published on 12. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-1-59213-613-1 (ISBN)
Description
Discusses the power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life
Reviews / Votes
"One Less Car is a serious update and expansion of the social and political history of bicycling. I would own this book for the notes and bibliography alone."-Robert Hurst, author of The Cyclist's Manifesto and The Art of Cycling
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59213-613-1 (9781592136131)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Zack Furness is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago and a member of the Bad Subjects collective.
Content
Acknowledgments
1 Introductions and Intersections
2 Becoming Auto-Mobile
3 VElorutionaries and the Right to the (Bikeable) City
4 Critical Mass and the Functions of Bicycle Protest
5 Two-Wheeled Terrors and Forty-Year-Old Virgins: Mass Media and the Representation of Bicycling
6 DIY Bike Culture
7 Handouts, Hand Ups, or Just Lending a Hand? Community Bike Projects, Bicycle Aid, and Competing Visions of Development under Globalization
8 Conclusion, or "We Have Nothing to Lose but Our (Bike) Chains"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1 Introductions and Intersections
2 Becoming Auto-Mobile
3 VElorutionaries and the Right to the (Bikeable) City
4 Critical Mass and the Functions of Bicycle Protest
5 Two-Wheeled Terrors and Forty-Year-Old Virgins: Mass Media and the Representation of Bicycling
6 DIY Bike Culture
7 Handouts, Hand Ups, or Just Lending a Hand? Community Bike Projects, Bicycle Aid, and Competing Visions of Development under Globalization
8 Conclusion, or "We Have Nothing to Lose but Our (Bike) Chains"
Notes
Bibliography
Index