num_pages: 344
description: Although millions of people in the United States love to ride bicycles for exercise or leisure statistics show that only 1 percent of the total U.S. population uses bicycles for transportationand barely half as many people bike to work. In his original and exciting book One Less Car Zack Furness examines what it means historically culturally socioeconomically and politically to be a bicycle transportation advocate/activist.Presenting an underground subculture of bike enthusiasts who aggressively resist car culture Furness maps out the cultural trajectories between mobility technology urban space and everyday life. He connects bicycling to radical politics public demonstrations alternative media production (e.g. zines) as well as to the development of community programs throughout the world.One Less Car also positions the bicycle as an object with which to analyze and critique some of the dominant cultural and political formations in the U.S.and even breaks down barriers of race class and gender privilege that are interconnected to mobility. For Furness bicycling can be a form of liberation and a way to support social and environmental justice. So he asks Why aren't more Americans adopting bikes for their transportation needs?
language: English
title: One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
publisher: Temple University Press