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This book offers a critical examination of existing cycling structures and the current policy and practices used to promote cycling. An international range of contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of the complex cultural politics of infrastructural provision and interrogate the pervasive bias against cyclists in city planning and transport systems across the globe.
Infrastructural planning is revealed to be an intensely political act and its meaning variable according to larger political processes and contexts. The book also considers questions surrounding safety and risk, urban space wars and sustainable futures, connecting this to broader questions about citizenship and justice in contemporary cities.
Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure.
Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US-China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters demonstrate that many countries navigate the global infrastructure boom by articulating novel spatial objectives and implementing political and economic reforms.
By focusing on people and places worldwide, this book broadens perspectives on the US-China rivalry beyond bipolarity, and it is an essential guide to 21st century politics.
and 2015, the paid workers at Fietsersbond sat in the centre of a meshwork of contacts and knowledge about the city and the projects that were important for cyclists. While the city itself had few staff explicitly dedicated to cycling, Fietsersbond arguably maintained the best overview of relevant cycling knowledge in town. Other participants in planning processes in the city include traffic groups of community centres, organisations for pedestrians and disability groups, shopkeepers, the Chamber of Commerce, and environmental groups such as Milieudefensie
