Description
Book SynopsisPresents novel ways of understanding how cycling and driving animate urban space, place, and society and investigates how cycling can learn from the ways in which driving has become invested with moral value.
Trade Review“Weaving together insights from transport and mobilities research, urban planning, and ethnographic encounters gleaned on ride-alongs with cyclists in Canada and around the globe, Nick Scott takes us along on an enlightening journey in search of a good bike lane into the future.”—Phillip Vannini, author of
Off the Grid: Re-Assembling Domestic Life“This book tackles the very important and timely topic of how, why, where, and for whom more sustainable bicycling practices and infrastructure are taking off, or are being blocked, in various U.S. and Canadian cities. . . . Nick Scott asks far ranging questions about good cities, the good life, and the common good. Drawing on creative ethnographic vignettes, these lively stories highlight the pressing need for more focus on equity, social justice, and expansion of biking infrastructures to diverse populations. Scott also contributes important theoretical concepts of moral assemblage, moral friction, and moral mobilities to the growing body of work on mobility justice.”—Mimi Sheller, author of
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of ExtremesTable of ContentsList of Photographs
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Search of the Good Bike Lane
1. Domestic Mobilities: Local Tradition, Urban Place, and Good Roads
2. Industrial Mobilities: Road Engineering, Urban Planning, and Infrastructuring Efficiency
3. Civic Mobilities: Dedicated Bike Lanes, Cycling Social Movements, and Cycling Justice
4. Market Mobilities: Neoliberal Urbanism, Bike Share, and the Commodification of Cycling
5. Ecological Mobilities: Enacting Nature through Cycling
Conclusion: Good Cycling Futures
Notes
References
Index
