Assembling Bus Rapid Transit in the Global South - Translating Global Models, Materialising Infrastructure Politics

Summary

This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT) system for two decades. It analyses the dual processes of assembling BRT in the Tanzanian metropolis and establishing BRT as a policy model of and for the Global South.

Product details

• Authors: Malve Jacobsen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.01.2023
• EAN: 9780367621827
• ISBN: 978-0-367-62182-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Transport and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, TRANSPORTATION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, The environment, Human Geography, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Transport planning and policy, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Transport planning & policy, Development and environmental geography, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes