Abstract
Abstract In recent years a burgeoning bicycle culture has reanimated the city of Detroit. The following essay analyzes this reanimation through the themes of embodiment, mobility, spatiality, and the intersubjective creation of place, using the techniques of phenomenology. The description that emerges is an evolving social ontology with implications for cities like Detroit. In such cities any plan for re-urbanization must re-conceptualize both transportation schemas and public space on terrain once dominated by the automobile. The provisional phenomenological description on offer here should be thought of as just one tool in this project, as Detroit and cities like it negotiate the reconstitution of their communities.
Highlights
In recent years the city of Detroit has become home to many large and informally organized bicycle rides comprised of anywhere from dozens to hundreds of bicyclists
In recent years a burgeoning bicycle culture has reanimated the city of Detroit
The following essay analyzes this reanimation through the themes of embodiment, mobility, spatiality, and the intersubjective creation of place, using the techniques of phenomenology
Summary
In recent years the city of Detroit has become home to many large and informally organized bicycle rides comprised of anywhere from dozens to hundreds of bicyclists These rides or “jaunts” depart from a multitude of starting points and venture into every crevice of the city. I want to explore this phenomenon using the techniques of phenomenological reflection This will involve an analysis of collective embodied motility moving through space as mediated by bicycle technology which is changing the meaning of what it means to move through a city, with a focus on the particular situation of Detroit in its present circumstances. The provisional phenomenological description on offer here should be thought of as just one tool in this project, as Detroit and cities like it negotiate the reshaping of their communities.[1]
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