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Why Transportation Fails offers an in-depth critique of transportation failures in South Africa and beyond.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
Dr Astrid Wood is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Astrid is an urban geographer specializing in governance, infrastructure and transportation. She is the author of
How Cities Learn: Tracing Bus Rapid Transit in South Africa (2022) as well as over 40 peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles. Astrid is an editor at Urban Studies and at the Journal of Transport Geography.
