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Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
Melody L. Hoffmann
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Description for Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RPT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
The number of bicyclists is 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 ... Read more
The number of bicyclists is 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803276789
SKU
V9780803276789
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About Melody L. Hoffmann
Melody L. Hoffmann is an instructor of communication studies and journalism at Anoka Ramsey Community College. Her work has been anthologized in Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film (Nebraska, 2016).
Reviews for Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
“For anyone interested in the urban role of cycling, this is an important book. Informed by an overdue concern with race, class, and gender, it critically redresses imbalances in our current understandings of cycling. [Hoffmann] usefully punctures a general liberal, middle-class complacency over the implicitly assumed superiority of the bicycle. . . . Indispensable reading if our goal is to ... Read more