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Book 2019

Cyclescapes of the Unequal City

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Published
2019
  • City planning
  • Cities and towns, growth
  • Cities and towns
  • Growth
  • Bicycle lanes
  • Planning
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Sociology

"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"--Provided by publisher.