Overview
- Provides an international overview on how tactical urbanism was implemented to give more space to cycling
- Demonstrates the conceptual framework surrounding tactical urbanism and how it plays out theoretically
- Proposes new methodological insights to understand the effects of tactical urbanism interventions
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Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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This open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public space in order to develop means of transport that are both efficient and adapted to the health context and their effects on cycling practices in Europe, North, and South America. Its contributors collectively reveal and evidence through policies analysis, mapping, and innovative qualitative analysis bridging video and interviews, how those new infrastructures and policies can be a trigger for change in a context of mobility transition.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nathalie Ortar is Senior Researcher in anthropology at the LAET ENTPE-University of Lyon. Her research has mainly focused on the links between dwelling and spatial mobility. Since 2010, she has been leading research on the changes in social practices that occur in the ways of living in a context of injunctions to mobility and energy transition. Relating to energy, she is Co-editor of Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy, Berghanh (2021), and Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life De Gruyter (2022). She has been conducting research on cycling. Her previous research on urban cyclist was published in Becoming Urban Cyclist: From Socialization to Skills, Chester University Press (2022).
Patrick Rérat is Full Professor in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne. He is also Co-director of the Observatory for Cycling and Active Mobilities launched in 2020. His last book is “Cycling to work. An analysis of the practice of utility cycling” (Springer 2020). He has also published many papers in international journal such as Mobilities, Transportation Research Part A, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Urban Studies, etc.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cycling Through the Pandemic
Book Subtitle: Tactical Urbanism and the Implementation of Pop-Up Bike Lanes in the Time of COVID-19
Editors: Nathalie Ortar, Patrick Rérat
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45308-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45307-6Published: 17 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45310-6Published: 17 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45308-3Published: 16 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 250
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Environmental Geography