TY - BOOK AU - Popan,Cosmin TI - Bicycle utopias: imagining fast and slow cycling futures T2 - Changing mobilities SN - 9780429424113 AV - GV1043.7 U1 - 796.6 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Cycling KW - Social aspects KW - Bicycles KW - Urban transportation KW - GAMES / Gambling / Sports KW - bisacsh KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / History KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference KW - TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General N2 - Bicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009), transition theory (Geels et al. 2012) and utopian studies (Levitas 2010, 2013), this book imagines a slow bicycle system as a necessary means to achieving more sustainable mobility futures. The imagination of a slow bicycle system is done in three ways: Scenario building to anticipate how cycling mobilities will look in the year 2050. A critique of the system of automobility and of fast cycling futures. An investigation of the cycling senses and sociabilities to describe the type of societies that such a slow bicycle system will enable. Bicycle Utopias will appeal to students and scholars in fields such as sociology, mobilities studies, human geography and urban and transport studies. This work may also be of interest to advocates, activists and professionals in the domains of cycling and sustainable mobilities UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429424113 UR - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf ER -