Wiley How Cities Learn: Tracing Bus Rapid Transit in South Africa (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Review 'This carefully written and researched study offers detailed analysis of South African cities’ uneven implementation of bus rapid transit systems. Scholars who participate in the lively global conversation on urban policy will find much to contemplate within this thoughtful book.'Garth Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford'Urban problems are becoming increasingly complex requiring the actors and institutions of governance to continually learn, adapt and innovate. But how does this learning happen? This book provides an extraordinary case study. It describes with uncommon clarity an intricate process of policy transfer involving global actors and circulations but also embedded local concerns, politics and governmental arrangements. It is essential reading for urban scholars and public policymakers.'Philip Harrison, South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Product Description How Cities Learn traces the circulation of bus rapid transit (BRT) to understand how and why it was widely adopted in South Africa.Investigates the global proliferation and localization of BRTExamines the production and distribution of transportation knowledge in the global southAddresses the spatial and social legacy of apartheid in South African citiesReveals a new way of understanding the intersections between policy, people and placeEssential reading for scholars of geography, politics, sociology and transportation, as well as urban planners and practitioners Review 'This carefully written and researched study offers detailed analysis of South African cities’ uneven implementation of bus rapid transit systems. Scholars who participate in the lively global conversation on urban policy will find much to contemplate within this thoughtful book.'Garth Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford'Urban problems are becoming increasingly complex requiring the actors and institutions of governance to continually learn, adapt and innovate. But how does this learning happen? This book provides an extraordinary case study. It describes with uncommon clarity an intricate process of policy transfer involving global actors and circulations but also embedded local concerns, politics and governmental arrangements. It is essential reading for urban scholars and public policymakers.'Philip Harrison, South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg From the Inside Flap Three years after bus rapid transit (BRT) swept through South Africa, Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya opened as the first BRT system in Africa, and two years later, Cape Town’s MyCiTi became operational. Since then, BRT fever has continued unabated with systems launching in Ekurhuleni, eThekwini, Rustenburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay. While the South African BRT systems are modeled after those in Bogota, the process through which South African policymakers learned of and implemented BRT raises questions regarding how and why cities adopt best practice. Essential reading for scholars of geography, politics, sociology and transportation as well as urban planners and practitioners, How Cities Learn describes the process through which cities assemble, mobilize and adopt new policies and practices. From the Back Cover ‘This carefully written and researched study offers detailed analysis of South African cities’ uneven implementation of bus rapid transit systems. Scholars who participate in the lively global conversation on urban policy will find much to contemplate within this thoughtful book.—Garth Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford‘Urban problems are becoming increasingly complex requiring the actors and institutions of governance t