The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure
Spaces and (In)Equality
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2020
260 pages
978-1-4473-4516-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Persons
Editor
University of Chester
Peter Cox is a Professor at the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester.
Peter Cox is a Professor at the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Chester.
Lund University, Department of Technology and Society
Till Koglin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering at Lund University.
Till Koglin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering at Lund University.
Contributions
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 Brömmelstroet
Chapter 8 Conflictual Politics of Sustainability: cycling organisations and the Öresund crossing
Martin Emanuel
Chapter 9 Vélomobility 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 São Paulo: influence and effects in politics
Letícia 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 Brömmelstroet
Chapter 8 Conflictual Politics of Sustainability: cycling organisations and the Öresund crossing
Martin Emanuel
Chapter 9 Vélomobility 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 São Paulo: influence and effects in politics
Letícia Lindenberg Lemos
Conclusions
Till Koglin and Peter Cox
