Год выпуска: 0 Автор: A. Root Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0080440223
Описание
From California to Calcutta, Stratford to Sydney, transport affects and permeates lives and influences decisions, including where parents let their children play, which shops are used, whether neighbours are spoken to in the street and feelings about being safe when out at night. Transport is often the key factor in quality of life, it is the much-overlooked partner of globalisation and shapes societies across the world. Until now, transport has been left to planners and economists, but this timely book raises issues that these disciplines exclude. This book offers examples of how transport analysis can be diversified and broadened to include important theoretical approaches and perspectives not previously used in mainstream transport studies. These provocative essays cover a wide range of issues and opens up a debate on the effects of travel and transport on various social groups, from bikers to pre-school age children, in the West and
