Barnfield, A;
Plyushteva, A;
(2015)
Cycling in the post-socialist city: On travelling by bicycle in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Urban Studies
10.1177/0042098015586536.
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Abstract
There are many ways of moving through a city. Cycling is one which has received considerable attention from urban scholars. Yet it has remained largely neglected within the burgeoning literature on the post-socialist urbanisms of Central and Eastern Europe. This paper uses a case study from Sofia, Bulgaria to address this gap in urban research. By exploring the practices and affordances of cycling, we offer a discussion of everyday mobility, public life and urban space in post-socialist Sofia. This case study incorporates ethnography and in-depth interviews with regular cyclists. Through a discussion of bicycling spaces and practices, this paper complicates the notion of post-socialist cities as places defined by the decline of public sensibilities.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Cycling in the post-socialist city: On travelling by bicycle in Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098015586536 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098015586536 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| Keywords: | cycling, Eastern Europe, geography, post-socialist urbanism, privatism, Sofia, transport |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472198 |
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