Cyclescapes of the unequal city : bicycle infrastructure and uneven development

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781517903817
ISBN: 1517903815
Physical Description: print
xxii, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.