Readings for today:
- Michel DeCerteau "Walking in the City," from The Practice of Everyday Life.
- Mimi Sheller and John Urry, "The City and the Car," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2000): 737-757.
- Peter D. Norton, "Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street," Technology and Culture, Vol. 48 (April 2007): 351-358.
- A quick synopsis/commentary on DeCerteau's 'Walking'.
- André Gorz, "The Social Ideology of the Motorcar."
- Jason Henderson, "Secessionist Automobility: Racism, Anti-Urbanism, and the Politics of Automobility in Atlanta, Georgia," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 30, No. 2 (June 2006): 293–307.
- Iain Borden, "A Performative Critique of American Cities."
- Chris Carlsson, "Bicycling Over the Rainbow."
- Cotten Seiler, "So That We As a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By: African American Automobility and Cold-War Liberalism," American Quarterly (2006), pp. 1091-1117.
- Naomi Klein interview with Reclaim the Streets organizer, John Jordan.
- Steffen Bohm (ed), Against Automobility (a great collection of essays)
- Mimi Sheller, "Automotive Emotions: Feeling the Car." Lancaster University, 2003.
- The Evolution of Reclaim the Streets.
- PARK(ing) Day
- Zack Furness, "Critical Mass, Urban Space, and Vélomobility," Mobilities, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2007): 299-319.
- More shameless self-promotion: The introduction to my book, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility, Temple University Press (2010).
