Cycling in the post-socialist city: On travelling by bicycle in Sofia, Bulgaria

Andrew Barnfield and Anna Plyushteva
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Andrew Barnfield: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Anna Plyushteva: University College London, UK

Urban Studies, 2016, vol. 53, issue 9, 1822-1835

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.

Keywords: cycling; Eastern Europe; geography; post-socialist urbanism; privatism; Sofia; transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098015586536

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