Routledge Companion to Cycling - Norcliffe, Glen; Brogan, Una; Cox, Peter; Gao, Boyang; Hadland, Tony; Hanlon, Sheila; Jones, Tim; Oddy, Nicholas; Vivanco, Luis; (ed.) - Prospero Internet Bookshop
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Routledge Companion to Cycling

 
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Short description:

Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been a bellwether indicator of the major social, economic and environmental trends that have permeated society.

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Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been a bellwether indicator of the major social, economic and environmental trends that have permeated society The volume synthesizes a rapidly growing body of research on the bicycle, its past and present uses, its technological evolution, its use in diverse geographical settings, its aesthetics and its deployment in art and literature. From its origins in early modern carriage technology in Germany, it has generated what is now a vast, multi-disciplinary literature encompassing a wide range of issues in countries throughout the world.
Table of Contents:

An Introduction to The Companion to Cycling



Section 1: Cycling and Society: An Introduction


Introduction to Section 1



1. Theorising Cycling



2. Cycling and Gender: Past, Present and Paths Ahead



3. The Precarious Work of Platform Cycle Delivery Workers



4. The Sociality of Cycling


Vignette A: Black Cyclists Matter: Major Taylor ? Au Parc des Princes 1901.



5. Programs for Cycling Inclusion



6. The Potential of "Bike-like" Vehicles to Provide Big Wins for Climate Change,


Safety and Justice



7. Mobility, Freedom and Self-determination: The Benefits (and Barriers) to


Disabled People Cycling



Section 2: Cycle Technology


Introduction to Section 2



8. Configurations of Cycles



9. Frames and materials



10. Wheels and Shock Absorption



11. Transmission and Brakes



12. Passenger Carrying


Vignette B: Micromobility in Rwanda



13. Cycling Technologies and Disability



Section 3: The Cycling Economy: An Introduction


Introduction to Section 3



14. The Global Bicycle Industry



15. The Value Chains and Production Clusters of Taiwan?s Bicycle Industry



16. Bicycle Trade Shows as Transactional Spaces



17. Retailing Bicycles



18. On the Shoulders of Giant: Cluster Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Taiwanese Bicycle Industry



19. Street Trades and Work Cycles


Vignette C: Mobile cycle repairing in Beijing



SECTION 4: URBAN CYCLING: An Introduction


Introduction to Section 4



20. Cycling Infrastructure: Planning Cycle Networks


Vignette D: Cycling infrastructure in Lund, Sweden



21. Situating the Mobility Fix of Contemporary Urban Cycling Policy



22. Making Space for Cycling



Vignette E: B2W Indonesia and the re-cycling of Jakarta:


Purwanto Setiani



23. Shared Micromobility: Policy, Practices, and Emerging Futures



24. E-bikes: Expanding the Practice of Cycling?



25. Cycling Safety as Mobility Justice



Section 5: Sport Cycling, Health and Lifestyles: An Introduction


Introduction to Section 5



26. Amateur Sport Cycling: The Rise of the MAMIL.



27. Professional Road Cycling


Vignette F: In the peloton



28. Off-road Cycling



29. Track Cycling


Vignette G: Keirin culture



30. Health Benefits of Cycling



31. Doping in Cycling: Past, Present and Future Trends



SECTION 6: PLACES OF CYCLING: An Introduction


Introduction to Section 6


Vignette H: Early Cycling in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris.



32. Cycling?s Symphony of Place


Vignette I: Constructing peaceful places through bicycles



33. In Quest of Adventures



Vignette J: Winter cycling: Montreal?s four-season bicycle network



34. The Africanized Bicycle


Vignette K: The Devil?s Chariot: women cycling in the Middle East



35. Cycling in Indian Cities: Between Everyday Cyclists and Affluent Cyclists



36. The Rise the "Kingdom of Bicycles"



37. Copenhagen is a good place to bike ? but it could be better?


Vignette L: Beach Road, Melbourne


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38. Bogotá: Perspectives on the "World bike capital"



Section 7: The Visual Culture of Cycling


Introduction to Section 7



39. The Machine Aesthetic: The Visual Identity of the Bicycle and Its


Representation in Advertising and Artefacts



40. Dressed to Ride



41. Cycle Posters of The Belle Époque:



42. Art and the Cycle


Vignette M: The space between



43. Cycling and Cinema: Revolutionary Films



Section 8: Cycling in Literature: An Introduction


Introduction to Section 8



44. The Bicycle and the Creative Pursuit in French Literature



45. The Liberating Bicycle in Literature



46. Cycling humor in turn-of-the-century literature



47. On Bards on Bicycles: The Art of Cycling Poetry



48. "The stutter of the world beneath you": The Literature of Cycle Travel