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This is something I’ve never seen in the United States: a bicycle rack with a roof to protect the bicycles from the elements<\/em>. Not much to look at. Not even designed to take high-security U-Locks like an American university bike rack. Mundane. But unexpected, to my foreign eyes.<\/p>\n Compare to an American version:<\/p>\n The American version isn’t much to look at, but you can see it has high, thick bars, no roof, and is placed next to a large trash can. The Danish version, by contrast, is roofed, has fairly thin metalwork rather than heavy bars, and was placed beside a rather small trash can (though that wasn’t in the photo). A similar type of roofed bike rack was also found near a Swedish university I visited, to give one tiny point of comparison. So what, you ask? I suppose it simply seems good to remind ourselves that cultural (and, most likely, meteorological) differences play a visible role in so mundane a device as these bike racks… incidentally, I haven’t noticed large bike racks at French universities at all, but possibly haven’t been paying attention.<\/p>\n The Danish image, by the way, was taken at the Danish School of Education<\/a>, where I had the chance to see Sue Wright<\/a> earlier this summer. She and her colleagues do marvelous research about neoliberal restructuring of English and Danish universities, which I ought to write about more in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is something I’ve never seen in the United States: a bicycle rack with a roof to protect the bicycles from the elements. Not much to look at. Not even designed to take high-security U-Locks like an American university bike rack. Mundane. But unexpected, to my foreign eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[485],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"uconn](\"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/uconn-bike-rack.jpg\" "\\"uconn")
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