Screen LibraryCyclescapes of the unequal city : bicycle infrastructure and uneven development /
"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...
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University of Minnesota Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Minneapolis, MN : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781517903817 1517903815 9781517903800 1517903807 |
| Index Number: | HT165 |
| CLC: | TU984.191 |
| Call Number: | TU984.191/S817 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Vehicle for a new city -- The city and the cyclescape -- The bicycle and the region in post-crisis America -- Everyday practices and the social infrastructure of urban cycling -- Gentrification and the changing publics of bicycle infrastructure -- Institutional power and intraclass conflict over complete streets -- Bicycle sharing systems as already-splintered infrastructure -- Conclusion: Notes on a passive revolution in mobility. |