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Seeing like a cyclist: visibility and mobility in modern Dublin, c. 1930–1980

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2014

ERIKA HANNA
ERIKA HANNA*
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School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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Abstract

This article explores the visibility of the cyclist in Dublin from the 1930s to the 1980s. This visibility is explored in three ways: how the historian can and has apprehended the figure of the cyclist within the city, how the cyclist made him or herself visible within the urban environment and how cyclists were seen within techniques and conventions of urban planning. I suggest that a close examination of the place of the cyclist within the city provides a suggestive tool for understanding the implicit assumptions of urban change at mid-century.

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Urban History , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , May 2015 , pp. 273 - 289
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