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Mumbai on Two Wheels

Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
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Cyclists from India reimagine transportation infrastructure for all Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring how people bike and what biking means in the city, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria challenges assumptions that underlie sustainable transportation planning. Arguing that planning professionals and advocates need to pay closer attention to ordinary people who cycle for transportation or for work, or who choose to cycle for recreation, Mumbai on Two Wheels offers an alternative to the thinking that dominates mainstream sustainable transportation discussions. The book's insights come from bicycle activists, commuters, food delivery workers, event organizers, planners, technicians, shop owners, and architects. Through ethnographic vignettes and descriptions of diverse biking experiences, it shows how pedaling through the city produces a way of seeing and understanding infrastructure. Readers will come away with a new perspective on what makes a city bicycle friendly and an awareness that lessons for a more equitable and sustainable urban future can be found in surprising places.
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria is associate professor of anthropology at Brandeis University and author of The Slow Boil: Street Food, Rights, and Public Space in Mumbai.
Cyclists from India reimagine transportation infrastructure for all
"[O]ffers a fresh and engaging perspective on bicycling through the case of Mumbai, India." -- "H-Net Reviews" "Mumbai on Two Wheels provides to readers fresh qualitative perspectives on the everyday struggles of cyclists in megacities in India. In doing so, it adds to ethnographic literature on cycling, streets, infrastructure, and mobility in urban landscapes." -- "Society for the Anthropology of Work" "An essential addition to existing literature on place-making, mobility and infrastructures in urban landscapes. It paves a way for its readers to think of ways in which a sustainable mode of transport can, at the same time, be sensorially experienced and embodied. It offers a space for deeper conversations of bicycle futures among cyclists, policy-makers, anthropologists, and urban and transportation planners, among others. Anjaria offers readers an exciting entry into the diverse experiences of people in the streets and with the infrastructures of the city in the present." -- "South Asian Review"
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