Book ID: CBB343176031

Bicycle Utopias: Imagining fast and slow cycling futures (2019)

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Cosmin Popan (Author)


Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group


Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Book Series: Changing mobilities
Physical Details: 201
Language: English

Bicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009), transition theory (Geels et al. 2012) and utopian studies (Levitas 2010, 2013), this book imagines a slow bicycle system as a necessary means to achieving more sustainable mobility futures. The imagination of a slow bicycle system is done in three ways: Scenario building to anticipate how cycling mobilities will look in the year 2050. A critique of the system of automobility and of fast cycling futures. An investigation of the cycling senses and sociabilities to describe the type of societies that such a slow bicycle system will enable. Bicycle Utopias will appeal to students and scholars in fields such as sociology, mobilities studies, human geography and urban and transport studies. This work may also be of interest to advocates, activists and professionals in the domains of cycling and sustainable mobilities. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Emanuel, Martin
Oldenziel, Ruth
Héran, Frédéric
Friss, Evan
Schipper, Frank
Tóth, Katalin
Concepts
urban transportation
Land transportation
Bicycles
Mobility
Transportation
Technology and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Europe
Nairobi (Kenya)
Budapest (Hungary)
Ukraine
Romania
Institutions
Club des Villes Cyclables
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