Routledge Companion to Cycling

Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been a bellwether indicator of the major social, economic and environmental trends that have permeated society.

Glen Norcliffe is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at York University, Canada. Una Brogan is a translator and independent researcher from Northern Ireland, UK. Peter Cox is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Chester, UK. Boyang Gao is Professor of Urban and Real Estate Management, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing. Tony Hadland is a Chartered Building Surveyor and historian living in Oxfordshire, UK. Sheila Hanlon is a historian specialising in the history of women's cycling works with a number of organizations such as Cycling UK and the Cycling History Education Trust. Tim Jones is Reader in Urban Mobility in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Nicholas Oddy is Head of Department of Design History & Theory at Glasgow School of Art, UK. Luis Vivanco is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont, USA.

An Introduction to The Companion to Cycling Section 1: Cycling and Society: An Introduction Introduction to Section 1 1. Theorising Cycling 2. Cycling and Gender: Past, Present and Paths Ahead 3. The Precarious Work of Platform Cycle Delivery Workers 4. The Sociality of Cycling Vignette A: Black Cyclists Matter: Major Taylor - Au Parc des Princes 1901. 5. Programs for Cycling Inclusion 6. The Potential of "Bike-like" Vehicles to Provide Big Wins for Climate Change, Safety and Justice 7. Mobility, Freedom and Self-determination: The Benefits (and Barriers) to Disabled People Cycling Section 2: Cycle Technology Introduction to Section 2 8. Configurations of Cycles 9. Frames and materials 10. Wheels and Shock Absorption 11. Transmission and Brakes 12. Passenger Carrying Vignette B: Micromobility in Rwanda 13. Cycling Technologies and Disability Section 3: The Cycling Economy: An Introduction Introduction to Section 3 14. The Global Bicycle Industry 15. The Value Chains and Production Clusters of Taiwan's Bicycle Industry 16. Bicycle Trade Shows as Transactional Spaces 17. Retailing Bicycles 18. On the Shoulders of Giant: Cluster Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Taiwanese Bicycle Industry 19. Street Trades and Work Cycles Vignette C: Mobile cycle repairing in Beijing SECTION 4: URBAN CYCLING: An Introduction Introduction to Section 4 20. Cycling Infrastructure: Planning Cycle Networks Vignette D: Cycling infrastructure in Lund, Sweden 21. Situating the Mobility Fix of Contemporary Urban Cycling Policy 22. Making Space for Cycling Vignette E: B2W Indonesia and the re-cycling of Jakarta: Purwanto Setiani 23. Shared Micromobility: Policy, Practices, and Emerging Futures 24. E-bikes: Expanding the Practice of Cycling? 25. Cycling Safety as Mobility Justice Section 5: Sport Cycling, Health and Lifestyles: An Introduction Introduction to Section 5 26. Amateur Sport Cycling: The Rise of the MAMIL. 27. Professional Road Cycling Vignette F: In the peloton 28. Off-road Cycling 29. Track Cycling Vignette G: Keirin culture 30. Health Benefits of Cycling 31. Doping in Cycling: Past, Present and Future Trends SECTION 6: PLACES OF CYCLING: An Introduction Introduction to Section 6 Vignette H: Early Cycling in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. 32. Cycling's Symphony of Place Vignette I: Constructing peaceful places through bicycles 33. In Quest of Adventures Vignette J: Winter cycling: Montreal's four-season bicycle network 34. The Africanized Bicycle Vignette K: The Devil's Chariot: women cycling in the Middle East 35. Cycling in Indian Cities: Between Everyday Cyclists and Affluent Cyclists 36. The Rise the "Kingdom of Bicycles" 37. Copenhagen is a good place to bike - but it could be better... Vignette L: Beach Road, Melbourne 38. Bogotá: Perspectives on the "World bike capital" Section 7: The Visual Culture of Cycling Introduction to Section 7 39. The Machine Aesthetic: The Visual Identity of the Bicycle and Its Representation in Advertising and Artefacts 40. Dressed to Ride 41. Cycle Posters of The Belle Époque: 42. Art and the Cycle Vignette M: The space between 43. Cycling and Cinema: Revolutionary Films Section 8: Cycling in Literature: An Introduction Introduction to Section 8 44. The Bicycle and the Creative Pursuit in French Literature 45. The Liberating Bicycle in Literature 46. Cycling humor in turn-of-the-century literature 47. On Bards on Bicycles: The Art of Cycling Poetry 48. "The stutter of the world beneath you": The Literature of Cycle Travel