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Street Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

Street Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

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Series: Advances in Urban Sustainability

Business GeneralEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138334898
ISBN13: 9781138334892
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2019
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

With 29 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 in 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's suburbs, and new developments in Copenhagen include more parking for cars. There is a political tension in Copenhagen over the spaces for 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 United States.

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