Rights in Transit
Rights in Transit

Author: Kafui Ablode Attoh

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0820354228

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Is public transportation a right? Should it be? For those reliant on public transit, the answer is invariably “yes” to both. Indeed, when city officials propose slashing service or raising fares, it is these riders who are often the first to appear at that officials’ door demanding their “right” to more service. Rights in Transit starts from the presumption that such riders are justified. For those who lack other means of mobility, transit is a lifeline. It offers access to many of the entitlements we take as essential: food, employment, and democratic public life itself. While accepting transit as a right, this book also suggests that there remains a desperate need to think critically, both about what is meant by a right and about the types of rights at issue when public transportation is threatened. Drawing on a detailed case study of the various struggles that have come to define public transportation in California’s East Bay, Rights in Transit offers a direct challenge to contemporary scholarship on transportation equity. Rather than focusing on civil rights alone, Rights in Transit argues for engaging the more radical notion of the right to the city.

Routes and Rites to the City
Routes and Rites to the City

Author: Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-20

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 113758890X

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This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and colours within the city. It re-theorizes urban ‘super-diversity’ as a plurality of religious, ethnic, national and racial groups but also as the diverse processes through which religion produces urban space. The authors argue that while religion facilitates movement, belonging and aspiration in the city, it is complicit in establishing new forms of enclosure, moral order and spatial and gendered control. Multi-authored and interdisciplinary, this edited collection deals with a wide variety of sites and religions, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. Its original reading of post-apartheid Johannesburg advances global debates around religion, urbanization, migration and diversity, and will appeal to students and scholars working in these fields.

Regulating City Rights-of-Way
Regulating City Rights-of-Way

Author: League of Minnesota Cities

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Learn why cities should manage their streets and sidewalks, boulevards and ditches by enacting a right-of-way ordinance. Understand the powers of state law cities can use by adopting an ordinance, including the authority to regulate utilities and others using right-of-ways and enables communities to better meet utility service lateral locate responsibilities. Addresses mandatory underground placement of utilities. Links to model ordinances.

Cities and Their Vital Systems
Cities and Their Vital Systems

Author: Advisory Committee on Technology and Society

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1988-02-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0309037867

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Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.