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Title: Cycles of investment: bicycle infrastructure, gentrification, and the restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Bicycling for transportation in American cities has grown dramatically in the past twenty years, symbolizing the return of capital investment and commercial vitality to formerly disinvested urban cores. The cycling renaissance taking place to the greatest extent in gentrifying neighborhoods has been noted, but the processes relating cycling and gentrification have gone largely unexplored. This paper examines the early role that bicycle advocacy organizations in San Francisco played in articulating the specifically economic value of bicycle infrastructure investment. This narrative is now commonplace, and widely applied both to neighborhood revitalization and urban competition for talent. This alliance of bicycle advocacy with the livable turn of gentrification raises serious questions for those who would pursue a more democratic and socially just politics of the bicycle.

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Authors: Stehlin, John

Periodical (Full): Environment and Planning A

Issue: 1

Volume: 47

Pages: 121-137

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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Race and Ethnicity

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