Cycling Societies: Innovations, Inequalities and Governance

This book examines emerging debates and questions around cycling to critically analyse and challenge dominant framings and prevalent conventions of ’good cycling’.

Cycling Societies brings to light the plurality of voices and forms of cycling in other societies, revealing the diversity and complexity of cycling across different socio-political regimes, geographies and cultures. It presents case studies from five continents and demonstrates the need of thinking comparatively about cycling and urban environments. The book pivots around the three themes of innovations, inequalities and governance and engages a diversity of voices: world-renowned academics in the field of cycling and urban mobility, cycling activists and transportation consultants.

Synthesising academic contributions with policy briefs, this innovative book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of sustainable transportation, urban planning and mobility studies.

Dennis Zuev is an assistant professor at City University of Macau, Macau, China and associate researcher at CIES-ISCTE, IUL and Instituto Oriente, UL, Portugal.

Katerina Psarikidou is Lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University, UK.

Cosmin Popan is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.