El. knyga: Why Transportation Fails: Critiques from South Africa and Beyond [Taylor & Francis e-book]

1. Introduction i. Starting with Failure ii. Transportation in South
Africa and Beyond iii. Conceptual Contributions iv. Methodologies of Failure
v. Navigating This 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 South Africa 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. Transportation and COVID19 v. Impact of COVID19 on
Transportation 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

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. She is an editor at Urban Studies and at the Journal of Transport Geography.