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One less car : bicycling and the politics of automobility / Zack Furness.

Title
One less car : bicycling and the politics of automobility / Zack Furness.
Author
Furness, Zachary Mooradian.
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.

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Description
xi, 348 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Sporting
Uniform Title
Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
  • Bicycle commuting > United States
  • Cycling > Political aspects > United States
  • Transportation, Automotive > Social aspects
  • United States > Social life and customs
  • Urban transportation policy > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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"
ISBN
  • 9781592136124 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1592136125 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781592136131 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1592136133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2009048506
  • 40018012044
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries