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TRANSPORT REVIEWS 811 and gentrification. It is the aim of “Cyclescapes of the Unequal City” to array and examine these dialogues, as well as to challenge the spatially-divergent provision of bicycle facilities in neighbourhoods with outsized political agency and fast-rising property values. Stehlin, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, works through these issues and their theoretical implications with several cases from the Bay Area and elsewhere, including the addition of bike lanes to a rapidly-gentrifying corridor in San Francisco’s Mission District, and a similar push for cycling facilities in a diverse Oakland neighbourhood. Throughout, Cyclescapes is sensitive to the dynamic positions of cycling advocates, urban planners, and the larger municipal drive for economic development, all of which transition from the oppositional era of Critical Mass (monthly group cycling rides which …