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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marc Rivere; Robert Marconis; Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. |
OCLC Number: | 793135150 |
Description: | 1 vol. (509 p.) ; 30 cm. |
Responsibility: | Marc Rivere ; sous la direction de Robert Marconis. |
Abstract:
While it used to be quaint and unsuitable, it is now in free service and fashionable... Bicycles' recent renewal in urban spaces is the result of a process which was initiated during the 1970s under the influence of activists who claimed their belonging to the environmental wing of politics. This study seeks to understand how this « cause » was born and was then given recognition to eventually benefit to the new actors who, themselves, now vary its usages. As an entity which only makes sense in the public sphere, that is which claims a transformation of this very space and of its use to assert itself as a part of it, the bicycle highlights the enduring mutation of cities and of those who initiate it. Deliberately focusing on three cities where apathy towards a reconsideration of cars supremacy still dominates should help us understand the major role played by political, cultural, historical and economical facts in each city. Thus, studying the bicycle cause emphasises the contemporary expression of an ever changing society and allows a deeper comprehension of the evolutions of the public space for the past thirty years.
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