The Politics of Cycling Infrastructure : : Spaces and (In)Equality / / ed. by Peter Cox, Till Koglin.

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 pervasiv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.) :; 28 Black and White
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures, tables and box
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Theorising infrastructure: a politics of spaces and edges
  • The cultural politics of infrastructure: the case of Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Spatial dimensions of the marginalisation of cycling – marginalization through rationalisation?
  • Mental barriers in planning for cycling
  • Safety, risk and road traffic danger: towards a transformational approach to the dominant ideology
  • What constructs a cycle city? A comparison of policy narratives in Newcastle and Bremen
  • Hard work in paradise. The contested making of Amsterdam as a cycling city
  • Conflictual politics of sustainability: cycling organisations and the Øresund crossing
  • Vélomobility in Copenhagen – a perfect world?
  • Navigating cycling infrastructure in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Cycling advocacy in São Paulo: influence and effects in politics
  • Conclusion: politicizing infrastructure or sustainable mobility?
  • Index