ABSTRACT
Few practices are as quietly emblematic of the role of power in urban mobility in (hyper)modern cities as biking. Bike mobility portrays the movements and rhythms of modern daily lives and has become a symbol of policies that re-signify the city in post-industrial and cosmopolitan times. In a Scandinavian metropolitan city like Copenhagen, biking as spatialized urban mobility intermingles with the movement and ows that are interwoven with the city’s power structures and which add to the ongoing constitution of urban spatialities (Amin and Thrift 2002; Jensen 2007). Biking is a visible marker of new urban policies that prepare the ground for amiable, climate-friendly cosmopolitan urban spaces and is simultaneously a symbol of smooth, exible individual movement. At the same time, biking is a contested policy focus. If we recognize bike mobility as comprised in the mobility that is quintessential for modernity (Adey 2006; Cresswell 2006; Kesselring 2006; Sheller and Urry 2006), this enables us to see bike mobility in terms of a “politics of mobility” (Cresswell 2006).
