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Cycling in the post-socialist city:On travelling by bicycle in Sofia, Bulgaria
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.
Cycling in the post-socialist city:On travelling by bicycle in Sofia, Bulgaria
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.
Cycling in the post-socialist city:On travelling by bicycle in Sofia, Bulgaria
Barnfield, Andrew (author) / Plyushteva, Anna (author)
2016-07-01
Barnfield , A & Plyushteva , A 2016 , ' Cycling in the post-socialist city : On travelling by bicycle in Sofia, Bulgaria ' , Urban Studies , vol. 53 , no. 9 , pp. 1822-1835 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015586536
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