Constructing Cycling Citizenship through Infrastructure in Greater Lyon and Hamburg

Based on two field surveys on cycling practices and policies in Hamburg and Greater Lyon, this paper explores the role of cycling infrastructure in the production of differentiated cyclist citizenships. Building on the concept of infrastructural citizenship, it aims at analysing the construction of the cycling citizens through individual and collective practices of road and cycle infrastructure. Cyclist citizenship is constructed in Greater Lyon and Hamburg in relation to, or even in opposition to, motoring. Studying cycling practices from the point of view of infrastructure reveals the power relationships at play in public space, and between cyclists and the public authorities. Cycling infrastructure policies produce inequalities between cyclists and therefore differentiated citizenship through differentiated access to urban resources.