Urban Mobilities in the Global South

Tanu Priya Uteng, Karen Lucas, Tanu Priya Uteng, Karen Lucas

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351966016
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning. Transport system improvements can (and do) 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' are typically ill-equipped to identify and understand the complexities and inequities in urban areas of the Global South. Using case studies from urban Africa and Asia, the book addresses the need to understand the 'lived world' of mobilities and use this knowledge to address issues that are central to our urban existence in the 21st century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Prologue
• Some thoughts and acknowledgements
• The trajectories of urban mobilities in the Global South: an introduction
• 1 Cycling for social justice in democratizing contexts: rethinking “sustainable” mobilities
• 2 Negotiating access: urban planning policy and the social production of street vendor micro-mobilities in Hanoi, Vietnam
• 3 Exploring the intersection between physical and virtual mobilities in urban South Africa: reflections from two youth-centred studies
• 4 Informal mobilities and elusive subjects: researching urban transport in the Global South
• 5 The paratransit puzzle: mapping and master planning for transportation in Maputo and Nairobi
• 6 Exploring patterns of time-use allocation and immobility behaviours in the Bandung Metropolitan Area, Indonesia
• 7 Moving beyond informality? Theory and reality of public transport in urban Africa
• 8 One hundred years of movement control: labour (im)mobility and the South African political economy
• 9 Constructing wellbeing, deconstructing urban (im)mobilities in Abuja, Nigeria
• 10 Undertheorized mobilities
• Epilogue: Creating planning knowledge through dialogues between research and practice
• Index