1st Edition

Understanding Urban Cycling Exploring the Relationship Between Mobility, Sustainability and Capital

By Justin Spinney Copyright 2021
234 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Academic interest in cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the necessity for cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling. Based upon primary research in a variety of contexts such as London, Shanghai and Taipei, this book demonstrates that recent developments in urban cycling... Read more

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 – Cycling toward sustainability?

Chapter 2 - Towards a political-economy of cycling

Chapter 3 – Making up the (productive) cycling subject: excluding the ‘non-standard’ user in cycle infrastructure design

Chapter 4 – Extracting surplus value from mobility: cycling policy and practice in London (UK) as a mode of political-economic and bio-political governance

Chapter 5 – Economising ‘trick’ cycling on London’s South Bank: culture-led regeneration, spectacle and ‘entertailing’

Chapter 6 - Building the Taiwanese mobilityscape: an actor-network account of the journey from Bicycle Kingdom to Cycling Paradise

Chapter 7 – Transport solution or vehicle for surveillance capitalism? A case study of Dockless Public Bike Sharing (PBSS2.0) in Shanghai

Chapter 8 - Conclusions: where do we go from here?

Index

Biography

Justin Spinney is Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, UK.