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Book SynopsisThis study of three prominent U.S. cities—Milwaukee, Portland, and Minneapolis—examines how the burgeoning popularity of urban bicycling is trailed by systemic issues of racism, classism, and displacement.
Trade Review"Environmental historians interested in urban issues will profit from Hoffmann's look at social justice issues associated with "green" development. For urban planning students, as well as anyone involved in city planning, this book could be considered required reading. Bicycle advocates will find the work provocative and a stimulus toward more inclusive efforts in creating better transportation options for all city residents. Hoffmann has written an important and significant contribution to scholarship and to public discussions about bicycles, urban living, and development."—James A. Pritchard, Environmental History
"Powerfully relevant."—Cat Ariail,
Sport in American History“For anyone interested in the urban role of cycling, this is an important book. Informed by an overdue concern with race, class, and gender, it critically redresses imbalances in our current understandings of cycling. [Hoffmann] usefully punctures a general liberal, middle-class complacency over the implicitly assumed superiority of the bicycle. . . . Indispensable reading if our goal is to broaden cycling’s appeal and to make inclusive and just cities, as well as genuinely ecologically sustainable ones.”—Dave Horton, author of
Promoting Walking and Cycling: New Perspectives on Sustainable Travel“Important to many fields: transportation, race, city planning, housing and migration, sustainability, community organizing, planning and policy processes, and equity. . . . In the emerging scholarship concerning ‘bike equity,’ Melody Hoffmann is an early and influential entrant.”—Julian Agyeman, author of
Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices and PossibilitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. One Less Car, One More Critique: U.S. Urban Bicycle Culture and Advocacy2. More Races, Less Racing: The Role of a Bicycle Race in Community Building3. Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Gentrification and Historical Racism in Portland's Bicycle Infrastructure Planning4. Recruiting People Like You: Class-Based Recruitment and Bicycle Advocacy in Minneapolis5. The Beginning of the Equity Era: Possibilities and Solutions
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