Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Questioning Cities
Critiques from South Africa and Beyond
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Questioning Cities
ISBN: 978-0-367-33840-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Why Transportation Fails offers an in-depth critique of transportation failures in South Africa and beyond. Minibus taxis are unreliable and overcrowded; buses and trains are old and poorly maintained; and new services are derailed by spiraling capital and operational costs, protracted and politicized rollouts, and unsolvable infrastructural challenges. Rather than focusing on these failures, the conceptual and practical analyses in this book develop a critical understanding of transportation and highlight the opportunities for transportation to be more inclusive, innovative, and sustainable.
This book applies cutting-edge scholarship from geography and urban studies – decolonial geographies, Black geographies, policy mobilities, walking geographies, animal geographies, art geographies, and health geographies – to reframe transportation failure. The interdisciplinarity of this scholarship builds an approach that not only tells the story of transportation in South Africa, but also uncovers a range of conceptual interpretations and imaginations that stretch beyond urban mobilities and urban development. In decentering traditional geographies of knowledge production, Why Transportation Fails contributes to critical considerations of urban transportation in Africa and aspects of transportation justice within social and spatial transformation.
Given the never-ending financial and political investment in solving transportation, Why Transportation Fails is essential reading for scholars of architecture, development, geography, politics, sociology as well as urban planners and practitioners.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction i. Starting with Failure ii. Transportation in South Africa and Beyond iii. Conceptual Contributions iv. Methodologies of Failure v. Navigating the Book 2. Decolonizing Transportation i. Introduction ii. Decolonizing Geography iii. Decolonizing Geography in South Africa iv. Bringing Decolonizing Discourses into Transportation v. Decolonizing Transportation in Johannesburg vi. Conclusion 3. Black Transportation i. Introduction ii. The Whiteness of Geography iii. Defining Black Geographies iv. Bringing Black Geographies into Transportation v. Black Transportation in Johannesburg vi. Conclusion 4. People-Oriented Transportation i. Introduction ii. Problematizing Transit-Oriented Development iii. Bringing Policy Mobilities into Transportation iv. People-Oriented Transportation in Cape Town and Johannesburg v. A South African Approach to Transportation Planning vi. Conclusion 5. Walking-as-Transportation i. Introduction ii. Reconceptualizing Walkability iii. Walkability in African Cities iv. Walking-as-Transportation in Johannesburg v. The Failings of Walkability in Johannesburg vi. Conclusion 6. Trans-paw-tation i. Introduction ii. Finding the Animals in Human Geography iii. An Urban Paws iv. Bringing Animal Geographies into Transportation v. Trans-paw-tation in South African Cities vi. Conclusion 7. Transp-art-ation i. Introduction ii. Art in Postapartheid South Africa iii. Bringing Art into Transportation iv. Transp-art-ation in South Africa v. Conclusion 8. When Transportation Fails i. Introduction ii. Public Health, Epidemiology, and Urbanization iii. Disease and the South African City iv. Mobilities and Covid-19 v. Impact of Covid on Mobilities in South Africa vi. Conclusion 9. Conclusion i. Introduction ii. Reflecting on Why Transportation Fails iii. Reflecting on Transportation in South Africa… iv. Reflecting on Transportation…Beyond
