Monday, Feb 3

• Read: Jody Rosen, “Introduction: Bicycle Planet,” in Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (New York: Crown, 2022).
• Listen: “The Safety Bicycle,” 99% Invisible, Ep. 513.

Wednesday, Feb 5

• Read: Jeff Sparrow, “The Car Culture That’s Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No Means Inevitable,” Literary Hub, 27 Nov 2019.
  • Suggested Reading: This is a fabulous interactive piece that looks at the role of highway development in urban segregation in the US – Adam Paul Susaneck with graphics by Jeremy Ashkenas, Quoctrung Bui and Sara Chodosh, “Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway,” New York Times, 8 Sept, 2022.
• Listen: “The Modern Moloch,” 99% Invisible, Ep. 76.

For further reading/research

• Zack Furness, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010).
• Bill McKibben, “Wrong Turn: America’s Car Culture and the Road Not Taken,” Environment 360, 9 Jun 2022.
• Joseph Stromberg, “The Forgotten History of How Automakers Invented the Crime of ‘Jaywalking,'” Vox, 4 Nov 2015.
• Jody Rosen, “The Bicycle as a Vehicle of Protest,” The New Yorker, 10 Jun 2020.
• Wilt Hodges, “Do Bike Lanes Have to be White Lanes? A Q&A with Author Melody L. Hoffmann,” MinnPost, 25 Jul 2018.
• “Podcast: Are Bike Lanes White Lanes?,” Strong Towns, 4 Jan 2018.
• Jessie Singer, “We Should Ban Cars From Big Cities. Seriously.,” BuzzFeed News, 3 Nov 2017.
• Maria Konnikova, “Cars vs. Bikes vs. Pedestrians,” The New Yorker, 5 Nov 2015.
• Paul Gilroy, “Driving While Black.” In Car Cultures, ed. Daniel Miller. Berg, 2001, pp. 81-104.
• Gary Allan Tobin, “The Bicycle Boom of the 1890’s: The Development of Private Transportation and the Birth of the Modern Tourist,” Popular Culture, 7, 1974.
• André Gorz, “The Social Ideology of the Motorcar.” Le Sauvage, September-October 1973.