Furness, Zachary Mooradian.

One Less Car Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility / [Recurso electrónico] : Zack Furness. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 348 p. :) ill. ; - Sporting . - Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-336) and index.

Introductions and intersections -- Becoming auto-mobile -- Velorutionaries and the right to the (bikeable) city -- Critical Mass and the functions of bicycle protest -- Two-wheeled terrors and forty-year-old virgins : mass media and the representation of bicycling -- DIY bike culture -- Handouts, hand ups, or just lending a hand? : community bike projects, bicycle aid, and competing visions of development under globalization -- Conclusion, or "we have nothing to lose but our (bike) chains.

Libro Electrónico

9781592136148




Bicycle commuting--United States.
Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects.
Urban transportation policy--United States.
Cycling--Political aspects--United States.


United States--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

HE308 / .F87 2010

388.3/4720973