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Author Hoffmann, Melody L., author

Title Bike lanes are white lanes : bicycle advocacy and urban planning / Melody L Hoffmann
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

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Contents 1. One Less Car, One More Critique: U.S. Urban Bicycle Culture and Advocacy -- 2. More Races, Less Racing: The Role of a Bicycle Race in Community Building -- 3. Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Gentrification and Historical Racism in Portland's Bicycle Infrastructure Planning -- 4. Recruiting People Like You: Class-Based Recruitment and Bicycle Advocacy in Minneapolis -- 5. The Beginning of the Equity Era: Possibilities and Solutions
Summary "The number of bicyclists are increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white, upwardly mobile bicyclists, leading to neighborhood conflicts and accusations of racist planning. In Bike Lanes Are White Lanes, scholar Melody L. Hoffmann argues that the bicycle has varied cultural meaning as a "rolling signifier." That is, the bicycle's meaning changes in different spaces, with different people, and in different cultures. The rolling signification of the bicycle contributes to building community, influences gentrifying urban planning, and upholds systemic race and class barriers. In this study of three prominent U.S. cities--Milwaukee, Portland, and Minneapolis--Hoffmann examines how the burgeoning popularity of urban bicycling is trailed by systemic issues of racism, classism, and displacement. From a pro-cycling perspective, Bike Lanes Are White Lanes highlights many problematic aspects of urban bicycling culture and its advocacy as well as positive examples of people trying earnestly to bring their community together through bicycling."-- Provided by publisher
"This 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bicycle commuting -- Social aspects -- United States
Bicycle lanes -- United States
City planning -- United States
Zoning, Exclusionary -- United States
Community development, Urban -- United States
Racism -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Bicycle lanes
City planning
Community development, Urban
Race relations
Racism
Zoning, Exclusionary
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016004792
ISBN 9780803288201
0803288204
9780803288218
0803288212
9780803288225
0803288220