Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation

Aaron Golub is Associate Professor in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University, Oregon, USA.

This book provides the standards for equitable bicycle advocacy, policy, and planning by defining and operationalizing bicycle justice. In synthesizing the projects of critical cultural studies, transportation justice, and planning as applied practice, this book reveals the relevance of civil rights and social justice concerns to public interventions intended to increase cycling.

1. Introduction: Creating an Inclusionary Bicycle Justice Movement 2. Is the right to bicycle a civil right? Synergies and tensions between the transportation justice movement and planning for bicycling 3. Is Portland's Bicycle Success Story a Celebration of Gentrification? A theoretical and statistical analysis of bicycle use and demographic change 4. Freedom of movement / Freedom of choice: An enquiry into utility cycling and social justice in post-apartheid Cape Town, 1994-2015 5. Advocating Through Data: Community Visibilities in Crowdsourced Cycling Data 6. Advancing discussions of cycling interventions based on social justice 7. Theorizing Bicycle Justice Using Social Psychology: Examining the Intersection of Mode and Race with the Conceptual Model of Roadway Interactions 8. Delivering (in)Justice: Food Delivery Cyclists in New York City 9. Rascuache Cycling Justice 10. No Choice But to Bike: Undocumented and bike-dependent in rust belt America 11. Aburrido! Cycling on the U.S./Mexican Border with Doble Rueda Bicycle Collective in Matamoros, Tamaulipas 12. Civil Bikes: Embracing Atlanta's racialized history through bicycle tours 13. Decentering Whiteness in Organized Bicycling: Notes from Inside 14. Community Bicycle Workshops and "Invisible Cyclists" in Brussels 15. Community Disengagement: The Greatest Barrier to Equitable Bike Share 16. No Hay Peor Lucha Que La Que No Se Hace: Re-negotiating cycling in a Latino community 17. Collectively Subverting the Status Quo at the Youth Bike Summit 18. Mediating the 'White Lanes of Gentrification' in Humboldt Park: Community-Led economic development and the struggle over public space