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DESCRIPTION:We are in climate emergency and cities around the world (including San 
 Francisco) are struggling to find solutions. Copenhagen is often looked 
 upon as a hopeful model because of its extensive bicycle system (29 percent 
 of all trips are made by bicycle) and Copenhagen has a well-deserved 
 reputation with impressive green mobility metrics. Yet in California and in 
 cities and regions around the world naysayers dismiss comparisons with 
 Copenhagen.  With only superficial knowledge they claim that we cannot have 
 high rates of cycling or good public transit because we are different and 
 Copenhagen is too unusual or special.\n\nThis is not true.  In Street 
 Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City, 
 Jason Henderson and Natalie Gulsrud argue that Copenhagen’s politics of 
 mobility is more, not less, like most cities around the world.  They show 
 how in Copenhagen political debates over bicycle lanes, car parking, 
 congestion pricing and new road building are remarkably similar to debates 
 in California and worldwide. Crosscutting these debates are geographically 
 transcendent political ideologies such as left-progressive, neoliberalism, 
 and right-conservative. These political ideologies come with competing 
 conceptualizations about bicycles and cars, and they appear in almost every 
 major city worldwide.\n\nStreet Fights in Copenhagen shows that there is an 
 incredible potential for green mobility by shifting many urban trips from 
 the car to the bicycle, but becoming a bicycle city is a deeply political 
 pursuit. Understanding the political project that made Copenhagen a green 
 mobility inspiration will help situate and inspire those interested in 
 decarbonizing our transportation system and making cities livable and 
 equitable. This book offers hope and critical  insights into how this might 
 be achieved in most places around the world. The book will especially 
 appeal anyone contemplating what a “Green New Deal” might look like, as 
 well as anyone interested in city planning, urban transportation, urban 
 studies and the environment. \n\n Jason Henderson is Professor of Geography 
 & Environment at San Francisco State University. Natalie Gulsrud is 
 Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource 
 Management at the University of Copenhagen.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/05/18823755.php
SUMMARY:Copenhagen is a Realistic Model for Green Transportation - Author Reading
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/06/05/18823755.php
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