Zack Furness

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

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Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life

Produktdetails

• Sporting
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781592136124
• ISBN-10: 1592136125
• Artikelnr.: 28896144

Autorenporträt

Zack Furness is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago and a member of the Bad Subjects collective. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 
1 Introductions and Intersections 
2 Becoming Auto-Mobile 
3 Vélorutionaries 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" 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index