Acknowledgments
1. One Less Car, One More Critique: U.S. Urban Bicycle Culture and
Advocacy2. More Races, Less Racing: The Role of a Bicycle Race in
Community Building3. Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Gentrification and
Historical Racism in Portland's Bicycle Infrastructure Planning4.
Recruiting People Like You: Class-Based Recruitment and Bicycle
Advocacy in Minneapolis5. The Beginning of the Equity Era:
Possibilities and Solutions
NotesBibliography
Index
Melody L. Hoffmann is an instructor of mass communication at
Anoka-Ramsey Community College. Her work has been
anthologized in Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature
and Film (Nebraska, 2016).
"Environmental historians interested in urban issues will profit
from Hoffmann's look at social justice issues associated with
"green" development. For urban planning students, as well as anyone
involved in city planning, this book could be considered required
reading. Bicycle advocates will find the work provocative and a
stimulus toward more inclusive efforts in creating better
transportation options for all city residents. Hoffmann has written
an important and significant contribution to scholarship and to
public discussions about bicycles, urban living, and
development."—James A. Pritchard, Environmental History
"Powerfully relevant."—Cat Ariail, Sport in American History
“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 broaden cycling’s appeal and to make inclusive and just
cities, as well as genuinely ecologically sustainable ones.”—Dave
Horton, author of Promoting Walking and Cycling: New
Perspectives on Sustainable Travel
“Important to many fields: transportation, race, city planning,
housing and migration, sustainability, community organizing,
planning and policy processes, and equity. . . . In the emerging
scholarship concerning ‘bike equity,’ Melody Hoffmann is an early
and influential entrant.”—Julian Agyeman, author of Incomplete
Streets: Processes, Practices and Possibilities
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