Delivering sustainable transport : a social science perspective /
edited by Amanda Root.
- 1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prelims -- Globalisation, markets and policy - the need for new paradigms -- Transport, modernity and globalisation -- Limits of economics -- If public transport is the answer, what is the question? -- Post-modernity and reflexivity -- Reflexivity in transport studies -- Mobilising the mobile: the political inclusion of the transport user -- Identity, lifestyle and the gaming interview -- Cultural studies -- The automobile era: a cultural analysis -- Ethnography of motor-bike boys -- The effects of different localities on children's play and development -- New dimensions in mobility discourses -- What is transport social exclusion? -- Westernising travel policy: rickshaw pullers in Calcutta -- The city and the car -- About the authors -- Index.
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Transportation--Environmental aspects. Transportation--Social aspects. Transportation--Automotive--General. Road transport industries.