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Author:   Nathalie Ortar ,  Patrick Rérat
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
Weight:   0.493kg
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9783031453106

ISBN 10:   3031453107
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   17 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Has cycling got a boost from the pandemic?- ‘School Streets’ and the adaptation London’s state-led tactical urbanism during COVID-19.- Public action in times of crisis: Trajectories of cycling policies in four French cities.- Press discourse on cycling before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown in France. The rise of the user-group voice.- Tactical urbanism to develop cycling infrastructures: The implementation of COVID cycle lanes in Switzerland.- Temporary urbanism in pandemic times—Disruption and continuity of public action in Montreal.- Pop-up bike lanes and temporary shared spaces in Vienna during the COVID-19 pandemic.- The spatial dimension of “pop-up cycle paths” in metropolitan areas: A comparative study of France and Colombia.- Cycling in Bogotá during a pandemic. The influence of tactical urbanism and perceived in-security on bicycle usage.- Changing cycling practices and Covid cycle lanes in five French cities.

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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.

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