A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Infrastructure - Image 1

£60.65

Blurb A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Infrastructure

Name: A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Infrastructure
Brand: Blurb
Price: 60.65 GBP
Availability: InStock

Structures

Price History & Forecast

Last 10 days • 10 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 10 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £61 (10 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £61 - £61

Price levels: 1 different prices over 10 days

Description

Why should you read another book about transport and land use? This book differs in that we won't focus on empirical arguments - we present political arguments. We argue the political aspects of transport policy shouldn't be assumed away or treated as a nuisance. Political choices are the core reasons our cities look and function the way they do. There is no original sin that we can undo that will lead to utopian visions of urban life. The book begins by introducing and expanding on the idea of Accessibility. Then we proceed through several major parts: Infrastructure Preservation, Network Expansion, Cities, and Institutions. Infrastructure preservation concerns the relatively short-run issues of how to maintain and operate the existing surface transport system (roads and transit). Network expansion in contrast is a long-run problem, how to enlarge the network, or rather, why enlarging the network is now so difficult. Cities examines how we organize, regulate, and expand our cities to address the failures of transport policy, and falls into the time-frame of the very long-run, as property rights and land uses are often stickier than the concrete of the network is durable. In the part on Institutions we consider things that might at first blush appear to be short-run and malleable, are in fact very long-run. Institutions seem to outlast the infrastructure they manage. Many of the transport and land use problems we want to solve already have technical solutions. What these problems don't have, and what we hope to contribute, are political solutions. We expect the audience for this book to be practitioners, planners, engineers, advocates, urbanists, students of transport, and fellow academics.

Product Specifications

Brand: Blurb
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0368351599
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Structures
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 May 2025
Listed Since: 26 February 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Blurb A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Infrastructure

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)

Intelligent Solutions for Cities and Mobility of the Future: 352 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 352)

Life-Oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy

Advanced Solutions of Transport Systems for Growing Mobility: 14th Scientific and Technical Conference "Transport Systems. Theory & Practice 2017" ... in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 631)

Modern Transport Geography 2 Rev

Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Urban Access for the 21st Century: Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure

Intelligent Transport Systems and Travel Behaviour: 13th Scientific and Technical Conference "Transport Systems. Theory and Practice 2016" Katowice, ... in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 505)

Fleet Management and Logistics (Centre for Research on Transportation)

Prescription for Social Dilemmas: Psychology for Urban, Transportation, and Environmental Problems

Extraordinary Cities: Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems and City/State Relations

How Great Cities Happen: Integrating People, Land Use and Transport: Second Edition (Cities series)

Transportation, Land Use and Integration: Applications in Developing Countries

Urban Design and Representation: A Multidisciplinary and Multisensory Approach

Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies

Infrastructuring: The Key to Achieving Economic Growth, Productivity, and Quality of Life

Present Approach to Traffic Flow Theory and Research in Civil and Transportation Engineering (Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure)

From Mobility to Accessibility: Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning

The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia: State Power, Land Control, Financial Flows, and Dispossession (Regions and Cities)

Re-thinking Mobility Poverty: Understanding Users' Geographies, Backgrounds and Aptitudes (Transport and Society)

Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Transport Economics and Policy

Handbook of Transportation Science: 56 (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 56)

Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities: Transforming Streets to Address Climate Change (Advances in Urban Sustainability)

Redeploying Urban Infrastructure: The Politics of Urban Socio-Technical Futures