The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure: Spaces and (In)Equality

by Letícia Lindenberg Lemos (Contribution by), Andrew Barnfield (Contribution by), Anna Plyushteva (Contribution by), Malene Freudendal-Pedersen (Contribution by), Martin Emanuel (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447345152
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	02/26/2020
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“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.