TY - BOOK

T1 - Street Fights in Copenhagen

T2 - Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

AU - Henderson, Jason

AU - Gulsrud, Natalie Marie

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - With twenty-nine percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport. This book considers the underlying political conditions that enabled cycling to appeal to such a wide range of citizens of Copenhagen and asks how this can be replicated elsewhere.Despite Copenhagen’s global reputation, its success has been a result of a long political struggle and is far from completely secure. Car use in Denmark is increasing, including in Copenhagen suburbs, and new developments in Copenhagen include more parking for cars. There is a political tension in Copenhagen over the spaces of cycling, the car, and public transit. In considering examples of backlashes and conflicts over street space in Copenhagen, this book argues that the kinds of debates happening in Copenhagen are very similar to the debates regularly occurring in cities throughout the world. This makes Copenhagen more, not less, comparable to many cities around the world, including cities in the US.This book will appeal to upper-level undergraduates and graduates in urban geography, city planning, transportation, environmental studies, as well as transportation advocates, urban policy-makers, and anyone concerned about climate change and looking to identify paths forward in their own cities and localities.

AB - With twenty-nine percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport. This book considers the underlying political conditions that enabled cycling to appeal to such a wide range of citizens of Copenhagen and asks how this can be replicated elsewhere.Despite Copenhagen’s global reputation, its success has been a result of a long political struggle and is far from completely secure. Car use in Denmark is increasing, including in Copenhagen suburbs, and new developments in Copenhagen include more parking for cars. There is a political tension in Copenhagen over the spaces of cycling, the car, and public transit. In considering examples of backlashes and conflicts over street space in Copenhagen, this book argues that the kinds of debates happening in Copenhagen are very similar to the debates regularly occurring in cities throughout the world. This makes Copenhagen more, not less, comparable to many cities around the world, including cities in the US.This book will appeal to upper-level undergraduates and graduates in urban geography, city planning, transportation, environmental studies, as well as transportation advocates, urban policy-makers, and anyone concerned about climate change and looking to identify paths forward in their own cities and localities.

KW - Faculty of Science

KW - Bicycling

KW - Green Infrastructure (GI)

KW - sustainable urban planning

KW - Governance

KW - sustainable transition pathways

KW - Copenhagen

U2 - 10.4324/9780429444135

DO - 10.4324/9780429444135

M3 - Book

SN - 9781138334892

SN - 9781138317536

T3 - Advances in Urban Sustainability

BT - Street Fights in Copenhagen

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -