ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the connections between increased bicycle ridership and demographic change in Portland Through theoretical and statistical analysis. It also explores connections among the neoliberal growth model, gentrification, and sustainability planning, and examines how debates about race and gentrification come to be displaced to the realm of seemingly benign infrastructure planning processes. In short, neoliberalism entails the subordination of governance to market forces. Policy is therefore a means of facilitating private profit-making, rather than a tool to prevent or mitigate unjust market outcomes such as the displacement of low-income people of color from gentrifying neighborhoods. Neoliberal urbanism can be considered a "postpolitical" concept in the sense that it cannot be questioned in the context of mainstream political and planning discourse without jeopardizing the legitimacy of the questioner. The link between bicycling and gentrification in Portland expresses that the demographic and spatial makeup of the city's bicycle ridership gains need to be better understood by policymakers, bicycle activists, and scholars.
