How cities learn : tracing bus rapid transit in South Africa

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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.

Transportation -- Social aspects