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Author Furness, Zachary Mooradian, author.

Title One less car : bicycling and the politics of automobility / Zack Furness.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) : illustrations.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Sporting
Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introductions and Intersections -- Chapter 2. Becoming auto-mobile -- Chapter 3. VĂ©lorutionaries and the right to the (bikeable) city -- Chapter 4. Critical Mass and the functions of bicycle protest -- Chapter 5. Two-wheeled terrors and forty-year-old virgins : Mass media and the representation of bicycling -- Chapter 6. DIY bike culture -- Chapter 7. Handouts, hand ups, or just lending a hand? Community bike projects, bicycle aid, and competing visions of development under globalization -- Chapter 8. Conclusion, or "We have nothing to lose but our (bike) chains" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Cycling -- Political aspects -- United States.
Cycling -- Political aspects.
United States.
Cycling.
Urban transportation policy -- United States.
Urban transportation policy.
Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects.
Bicycle commuting -- United States.
Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects.
United States -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Transportation, Automotive.
TRANSPORTATION -- Automotive -- Pictorial.
Bicycle commuting.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
Business & Economics.
Transportation Economics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Furness, Zachary Mooradian. One less car. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010 9781592136124 (DLC) 2009048506 (OCoLC)468973423
ISBN 9781592136148 (electronic book)
1592136141 (electronic book)
9781592136124 (hc ; alkaline paper)
9781592136131 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1592136125 (hc ; alkaline paper)
1592136133 (paperback ; alkaline paper)