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This book is an empirically rich case-study of what is currently the most popular alternative-fuel vehicle in the history of motorization – the electric two-wheeler (e-bike). The book provides sociological insights into e-bike mobility in China and discusses politics, social practices and larger issues of mobility transition in urban China. Taking an accessible approach to the subject, the book identifies the main sociospatial conflicts regarding the use of e-bikes and discusses why electric two-wheeler mobility is important for the future of urban China and urban transportation globally. This book will be an invaluable read for urban geographers and transportation researchers, but also for academics and general readers interested in Chinese Studies, specifically in the area of urban mobility in China.

Electric vehicles --- Electric bicycles --- E-bikes --- Bicycles --- Motorcycles --- EVs (Electric vehicles) --- Vehicles, Electric --- Motor vehicles --- Sociology, Urban. --- Human Geography. --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Architecture. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Urbanism. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Design and construction --- Urban geography. --- Human geography. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- Technology --- Sociological aspects.

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“This book offers a refreshing visual sociological take on a number of game-changing developments in society, relating to the pivotal and contested role of images and visual technologies. Its core part consists of case studies that traverse different but interconnected spaces of human activity. Drawing on concrete examples and events, this work helps to lower the threshold for those not yet acquainted with a more visual approach to studying culture and society.” — Luc Pauwels, Professor of Visual Research Methods, University of Antwerp, Belgium This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three domains of the ‘relational image’: the urban, social media, and the aerial. Zuev and Bratchford tackle issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of visuality. This concise overview will be of use to students and researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related courses in photography, new-media and visual studies. Dennis Zuev is Assistant Professor at City University of Macau, China, and Research Fellow at CIES-ISCTE, IUL, Portugal. Gary Bratchford is Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University of Central Lancashire, UK and Programme Leader for the MA in Photography.

Mass media. --- Communication. --- Photography. --- Sociology. --- Motion pictures. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Media Sociology. --- Sociology, general. --- Audio-Visual Culture. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- History and criticism --- Visual sociology --- Research. --- Political aspects. --- Visual communication --- Urban Sociology.

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This book examines emerging debates and questions around cycling to critically analyse and challenge dominant framings and prevalent conventions of 'good cycling'. Cycling Societies brings to light the plurality of voices and forms of cycling in other societies, revealing the diversity and complexity of cycling across different socio-political regimes, geographies and cultures. It presents case studies from five continents and demonstrates the need of thinking comparatively about cycling and urban environments. The book pivots around the three themes of innovations, inequalities and governance and engages a diversity of voices: world-renown academics in the field of cycling and urban mobility, cycling activists and transportation consultants. Synthesising academic contributions with policy briefs, this innovative book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of sustainable transportation, urban planning and mobility studies

Cycling --- Cycling --- Bicycle commuting. --- Bicycle lanes. --- Urban transportation policy. --- Cyclisme --- Cyclisme --- Déplacements à bicyclette --- Bandes cyclables --- Transports urbains --- Social aspects. --- Government policy. --- Aspect social --- Politique gouvernementale --- Politique gouvernementale

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