Urban Mobilities in the Global South

List of contents

Introduction Tanu Priya Uteng and Karen Lucas.

1. Cycling for Social Justice in Democratizing Contexts: Rethinking "sustainable" mobilities Lake Sagaris and Anvita Arora



2. Negotiating Access: Urban Planning Policy and The Social Production of Street Vendor Micro-Mobilities in Hanoi, Vietnam Noelani Eidse




3. Exploring the Intersection between Physical and Virtual Mobilities in Urban South Africa: Reflections from Two Youth-Centered Studies Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Ariane DeLannoy, Nwabisa Gunguluza, Mac Mashiri and Andisiwe Bango




4. Informal Mobilities and Elusive Subjects: Researching Urban Transport in the Global South Jennifer O’Brien and James Evans



5. The Paratransit Puzzle: Mapping and Master Planning for Transportation in Maputo and Nairobi Jacqueline M Klopp, Clemence M Cavoli




6. Exploring the Patterns of Time Use Allocation and Immobility Behaviours in the Bandung Metropolitan Area, Indonesia Yusak O. Susilo and Chengxi Liu




7. Moving beyond Informality? Theory and Reality of Public Transport in Urban Africa Dirk Heinrichs, Daniel Ehebrecht and Barbara Lenz




8. One Hundred Years of Movement Control: labour (im)mobility and the South African political economy Jesse Harber




9. Constructing Wellbeing, Deconstructing Urban (im)Mobilities in Abuja, Nigeria Daniel Oviedo, Caren Levy and Julio D. Dávila




10. Undertheorized Mobilities Fabiola Berdiel

Epilogue - Creating Planning Knowledge through Dialogue Between Research and Practice Maja Karoline Rynning, Tanu Priya Uteng and Karen Lucas

About the author

Dr Tanu Priya Uteng, Senior Researcher, Department of Mobility and Organisation, Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo

Dr Karen Lucas, Director of Research and Innovation, Associate Professor of Transport Geography, Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds, UK

Summary

Transport system improvements can have complex and unequal impacts on different sectors of society. Conventional approaches to analysing travel demand and transport system performance developed in the Global North can be ill-equipped to identify and understand the complexities and inequities of cities in the Global South. The book considers the

Product details

• Authors: Mr Tanu Priya Lucas Uteng, Tanu Priya (Institute of Transport Economic Uteng, Tanu Priya Lucas Uteng
• Assisted by: Karen Lucas (Editor), Lucas Karen (Editor), Tanu Priya Uteng (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367885588
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88558-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Transport and Mobility
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Sustainability, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Urban communities, Development Studies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Transport planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Transport planning & policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building