The politics of cycling infrastructure : spaces and (in)equality / edited by Peter Cox and Till Koglin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Peter, 1964- editor.

Koglin, Till, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Europe.

City planning.

Bicycle lanes--Europe.

Bicycle lanes.

Bicycle lanes--Government policy--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.

Biography/History:

Peter Cox is a Professor at the Department of Social and Political Science, University of Chester, UK. Till Koglin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering at Lund University.

Summary:

This book offers a critical examination of existing cycling structures and the current policy and practices used to promote cycling in Europe. 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.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Theorising infrastructure: a politics of spaces and edges

2. The cultural politics of infrastructure: the case of Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg, South Africa

3. Spatial dimensions of the marginalisation of cycling : marginalisation through rationalisation?

4. Mental barriers in planning for cycling

5. Safety, risk and road traffic danger : towards a transformational approach to the dominant ideology

6. What constructs a cycle city? A comparison of policy narratives in Newcastle and Bremen

7. Hard work in paradise : the contested making of Amsterdam as a cycling city

8. Conflictual politics of sustainability : cycling organisations and the Øresund crossing

9. Vélomobility in Copenhagen : a perfect world?

10. Navigating cycling infrastructure in Sofia, Bulgaria

11. Cycling advocacy in São Paulo : influence and effects in politics

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2021).

ISBN:

1-4473-4518-5

1-4473-4564-9

1-4473-4516-9

OCLC:

1137834426