How cities learn : tracing bus rapid transit in South Africa
by
 
Wood, Astrid, author.

Title
: 
How cities learn : tracing bus rapid transit in South Africa

Author
: 
Wood, Astrid, author.

ISBN
: 
9781119794295
 
9781119794318
 
9781119794301

Physical Description
: 
1 online resource

Contents
: 
Geographies of knowledge -- Translating BRT to South Africa -- Actors and associations circulating BRT -- The local politics of BRT -- Repetitive process of BRT adoption.

Abstract
: 
How Cities Learn traces the circulation of bus rapid transit (BRT) to understand how and why it was widely adopted in South Africa: Investigates the global proliferation and localization of BRT; Examines the production and distribution of transportation knowledge in the global south; Addresses the spatial and social legacy of apartheid in South African cities; Reveals a new way of understanding the intersections between policy, people and place; Essential reading for scholars of geography, politics, sociology and transportation, as well as urban planners and practitioners.

Local Note
: 
John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term
: 
Bus rapid transit -- South Africa.
 
Transportation -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
 
Service d'autobus express -- Afrique du Sud.
 
Transport -- Aspect social -- Afrique du Sud.
 
Urban.
 
Sociology.
 
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
 
Bus rapid transit
 
Transportation -- Social aspects

Geographic Term
: 
South Africa

Genre
: 
Electronic books.

Added Corporate Author
: 
Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain),
 
Institute of British Geographers,

Electronic Access
: 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119794295


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Online LibraryE-Book597214-1001HE5704.4 .A6 W66 2022Wiley E-Kitap Koleksiyonu