Bicycle utopias : imagining fast and slow cycling futures /: imagining fast and slow cycling futures. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Cosmin Popan.
• Authors: Popan, Cosmin
• Contents: Chapter 1, Prologue: Imagining a slow bicycle system The new ‘structure of feeling’ The end of neoliberalism: embracing the slow The urban form Bike + train + cargo = love Cycling as mobility policy From subculture to culture The bicycle economy and big data Know-how and technology transfer Innovations in bicycles and accessories Broader societal and economic changes Steps from 2016 to 2050 Chapter 2, Introduction: Tips of the cycling iceberg Chapter 3: How to imagine biketopias Utopia as method Conclusions: Enacting the social Chapter 4: Beyond autopia The elephant in the city From autopia to Carmageddon Electric, autonomous, networked, shared The mobility growth paradigm Going car-free Careless car-free? Conclusions: Beyond cars, beyond growth Chapter 5: Utopias, dystopias, biketopias In praise of slowness Early biketopias of modernity and progress Fast cycling for urban regeneration and growth Slow bicycle utopias Mad Max on a bike Convivial biketopias Bike spaces of hope Conclusions: A break from growth Chapter 6: Senses On growing pedals Velomobility at a glance Grow ears, awaken the whole body Working the inner body: balance and movement Pain festivities: ‘sufferfest’ How to achieve eurhythmia? Conclusions: Flowing towards eudaimonia Chapter 7: Sociabilities Cycling as interaction order and sociable practice The Ride-Formation Swarm sociabilities Conversation sociabilities Carnivalesque sociabilities Club sociabilities The chain-gang The accordion Conclusions: Fluid Ride-Formations Chapter 8: Slowness Need for speed Tactics of slowness Affecting the slow Slowness, sufficiency, de-growth Conclusions: A norm of sufficiency Chapter 9: Conclusions
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.4832; Bicycles -- Social aspects; Transportation -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429754029; 9780429754036; 9780429754012; 9780429424113
• Related ISBNs: 9781138389182
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