num_pages: 210
description: The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white upwardly mobile bicyclists leading to neighborhood conflicts and accusations of racist planning.In Bike Lanes Are White Lanes  scholar Melody L. Hoffmann argues that the bicycle has varied cultural meaning as a rolling signifier. That is the bicycles meaning changes in different spaces with different people and in different cultures. The rolling signification of the bicycle contributes to building community influences gentrifying urban planning and upholds systemic race and class barriers.In this study of three prominent U.S. citiesMilwaukee Portland and MinneapolisHoffmann examines how the burgeoning popularity of urban bicycling is trailed by systemic issues of racism classism and displacement. From a pro-cycling perspective Bike Lanes Are White Lanes highlights many problematic aspects of urban bicycling culture and its advocacy as well as positive examples of people trying earnestly to bring their community together through bicycling. 
language: English
title: Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
publisher: University of Nebraska Press