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One Less Car
Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
Zack Furness (Author)
9781592136131
Paperback / softback, published 12 March 2010
344 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.513 kg
"One Less Car is a serious update and expansion of the social and political history of bicycling. I would own this book for the notes and bibliography alone."
-Robert Hurst, author of The Cyclist's Manifesto and The Art of Cycling
Discusses the power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life
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