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What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the
developing world? What opportunities do these cities have to
provide for walking and cycling? Based on in-depth research
conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and
Nairobi (Kenya), this book explores these questions by presenting
work on walking and cycling travel behaviour, the status of road
safety in these cities, as well as an analysis of the
infrastructure for walking and cycling, and the workings of the
institutions responsible for planning for these modes. The book
also presents case studies relating to particular opportunities and
challenges, such as the development and evaluation of 'walking bus'
interventions, and the opportunities micro-simulation of pedestrian
interventions offers within a data-scarce environment.
Non-motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning
in Africa demonstrates that transport and urban planning remains
situated in a logic of automobile-dependent transport planning and
global city development. This logic of practice does not pay
adequate attention to walking and cycling. It argues that a
significant shift in both policy as well as political commitment is
needed so as to prioritize walking and cycling as strategies for
sustainable transport policy in urban Africa. This book will be a
key text for practitioners and policy makers working in planning,
transport policy and urban development in Africa, as well as
students and scholars of African studies, development studies,
urban geography, transport studies and sustainable development.
This book applies a range of theories that focus on current
concerns in rural Africa. The contributors lay out the
conceptualization, analysis, methods, assumptions, perceptions, and
ideas considered in each individual case. Specifically, this
project inspires research in the field of rural development in
Africa through multi-faceted endeavors that promote the ability of
planning to uplift people's well-being and quality of life.
What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the
developing world? What opportunities do these cities have to
provide for walking and cycling? Based on in-depth research
conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and
Nairobi (Kenya), this book explores these questions by presenting
work on walking and cycling travel behaviour, the status of road
safety in these cities, as well as an analysis of the
infrastructure for walking and cycling, and the workings of the
institutions responsible for planning for these modes. The book
also presents case studies relating to particular opportunities and
challenges, such as the development and evaluation of 'walking bus'
interventions, and the opportunities micro-simulation of pedestrian
interventions offers within a data-scarce environment.
Non-motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning
in Africa demonstrates that transport and urban planning remains
situated in a logic of automobile-dependent transport planning and
global city development. This logic of practice does not pay
adequate attention to walking and cycling. It argues that a
significant shift in both policy as well as political commitment is
needed so as to prioritize walking and cycling as strategies for
sustainable transport policy in urban Africa. This book will be a
key text for practitioners and policy makers working in planning,
transport policy and urban development in Africa, as well as
students and scholars of African studies, development studies,
urban geography, transport studies and sustainable development.
Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from
transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-A -vis
high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in
responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public
transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal
transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of
inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice
learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and
other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have
ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the
globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for
ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service,
provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a
mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African
entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic,
political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological
and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the
political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By
adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number
of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu
is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving
metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a
self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book
is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.
Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from
transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-A -vis
high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in
responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public
transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal
transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of
inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice
learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and
other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have
ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the
globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for
ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service,
provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a
mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African
entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic,
political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological
and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the
political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By
adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number
of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu
is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving
metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a
self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book
is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.
Where can one get a synthesis of research findings on urban
development planning in Africa? This book addresses this gap in
knowledge by distilling existing research to provide insights into
theories, research designs, empirical findings and approaches on
urban development planning in Africa. Starting with the overall
planning culture and strategies, the book chapters move on to
specific themes such as governance, population, poverty, water,
recreation, transport, agriculture, air quality and rural-urban
linkages. This book reduces the prevailing risk of unnecessary
duplication of research and the inadequate attention that is being
given to extending research in new areas. This situation has partly
been due to existing research remaining scattered in different
organizations and publications and has not been subjected to
critical synthesis to unearth any new developments that it
contains. The book makes available research findings to be utilized
in current and future urban development planning in Africa.
This book applies a range of theories that focus on current
concerns in rural Africa. The contributors lay out the
conceptualization, analysis, methods, assumptions, perceptions, and
ideas considered in each individual case. Specifically, this
project inspires research in the field of rural development in
Africa through multi-faceted endeavors that promote the ability of
planning to uplift people's well-being and quality of life.
Climate change is one of the multiple contemporary environmental
and development problems that human societies, including policy
makers, have to respond to. Global level negotiations and
programmes in climate are important but there is a need to
translate them into operational plans of actions and actual
activities at local country and urban level. An understanding of
the perception of the seriousness of the problem of climate change
is important in the overall programme of developing and initiating
interventions at both local and global levels. This book provides
an analysis of the perception of climate change in the city of
Nairobi, Kenya. The book examines knowledge of respondents on
climate change as well as their rating of climate change in
relation to other environmental and development problems facing the
city of Nairobi. The book also provides findings on the views of
respondents on the role of the El-Nio rainfall experienced in
October 1997-January 1998 in destruction of transport of
infrastructure in Kenya.
Road safety is a major development, public health and
transportation problem in many countries. Road traffic injuries
take a way the human and financial resources that countries need
for development. This book, based on a Ph.D degree thesis by the
author, provides a comprehensive analysis of road safety policy in
Kenya. The book focuses on three key issues: spatio-temporal
patterns of road traffic injuries, selected underlying
socio-economic dynamics and effectiveness of intervention measures.
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