"One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility" by Zachary Mooradian Furness
Series Sporting
Temple University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1592136125 9781592136124 9781592136131 | 361 pages | PDF/epub/mobi | 5/1/1 MB
Series Sporting
Temple University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1592136125 9781592136124 9781592136131 | 361 pages | PDF/epub/mobi | 5/1/1 MB
In this original and exciting book author examines what it means historically, culturally, socioeconomically, and politically to be a bicycle transportation advocate/activist.
Those who have swallowed the cycle will not strain long at the Automobile; and after the first decent show of apprehension has been disposed of, the obvious exhilaration and novelty of the exercise begins to exert a charm.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introductions and Intersections
2 Becoming Auto-Mobile
3 Vélorutionaries and the Right to the (Bikeable) City
4 Critical Mass and the Functions of Bicycle Protest
5 Two-Wheeled Terrors and Forty-Year-Old Virgins: Mass Media and the Representation of Bicycling
6 DIY Bike Culture
7 Handouts, Hand Ups, or Just Lending a Hand? Community Bike Projects, Bicycle Aid, and Competing Visions of Development under Globalization
8 Conclusion, or “We Have Nothing to Lose but Our (Bike) Chains”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks