One less car : bicycling and the politics of automobility

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    • Furness, Zack

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One less car : bicycling and the politics of automobility

Zack Furness

(Sporting)

Temple University Press, 2010

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-336) and index

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Description

Discusses the power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1 Introductions and Intersections 2 Becoming Auto-Mobile 3 Velorutionaries 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

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