Rights In Transit

Author : Kafui Ablode Attoh
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820354224

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Rights in Transit by Kafui Ablode Attoh Pdf

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.

Author : Kafui Ablode Attoh
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820354217

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Rights in Transit by Kafui Ablode Attoh Pdf

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.

Author : Jarrett Walker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781610911740

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Human Transit by Jarrett Walker Pdf

Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share. In Human Transit, Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services. Human Transit explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems; the process for fitting technology to a particular community; and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development. Whether you are in the field or simply a concerned citizen, here is an accessible guide to achieving successful public transit that will enrich any community.

Author : Deborah Kapchan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812209464

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Cultural Heritage in Transit by Deborah Kapchan Pdf

Are human rights universal? The immediate response is "yes, of course." However, that simple affirmation assumes agreement about definitions of the "human" as well as what a human is entitled to under law, bringing us quickly to concepts such as freedom, property, and the inalienability of both. The assumption that we all mean the same things by these terms carries much political import, especially given that different communities (national, ethnic, religious, gendered) enact some of the most basic categories of human experience (self, home, freedom, sovereignty) differently. But whereas legal definitions often seek to eliminate ambiguity in order to define and protect the rights of humanity, ambiguity is in fact inherently human, especially in performances of heritage where the rights to sense, to imagine, and to claim cultural identities that resist circumscription are at play. Cultural Heritage in Transit examines the intangibilities of human rights in the realm of heritage production, focusing not only on the ephemeral culture of those who perform it but also on the ambiguities present in the idea of cultural property in general—who claims it? who may use it? who should not but does? In this volume, folklorists, ethnologists, and anthropologists analyze the practice and performance of culture in particular contexts—including Roma wedding music, Trinidadian wining, Moroccan verbal art, and Neopagan rituals—in order to draw apart the social, political, and aesthetic materialities of heritage production, including inequities and hierarchies that did not exist before. The authors collectively craft theoretical frameworks to make sense of the ways the rights of nations interact with the rights of individuals and communities when the public value of artistic creations is constituted through international law. Contributors: Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, Deborah Kapchan, Barbro Klein, Sabina Magliocco, Dorothy Noyes, Philip W. Scher, Carol Silverman.

Author : Beatriz Huarte Melgar
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004288225

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The Transit of Goods in Public International Law by Beatriz Huarte Melgar Pdf

The Transit of Goods in Public International Law, examines the legal status of transit, its definition, and its enforceability under international law using principles of systemic integration, effective rights, and economic cooperation.

Author : Hugo Caminos,Vincent P. Cogliati-Bantz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107003767

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The Legal Regime of Straits by Hugo Caminos,Vincent P. Cogliati-Bantz Pdf

An account of the legal regime of straits and the allocation of rights and duties relating to transit passage.

Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945492066

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The Right Intention by Andrés Barba Pdf

Four linked novellas from the celebrated Spanish author of Such Small Hands.

Author : Deniz Göktürk,David Gramling,Anton Kaes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520248946

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Germany in Transit by Deniz Göktürk,David Gramling,Anton Kaes Pdf

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Author : Dola De Jong
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155861141X

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The Tree and the Vine by Dola De Jong Pdf

A lesbian love story set during the Nazi occupation in Holland.

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443447140

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Transit by Rachel Cusk Pdf

The stunning new novel from the author of Outline, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year In the wake of family collapse, a writer moves to London with her two young sons. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this precise, short, and yet epic novel, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one’s life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

Author : Ontario Human Rights Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Local transit
ISBN : OCLC:61305171

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Human Rights and Public Transit Services in Ontario by Ontario Human Rights Commission Pdf

Author : Diane Jones Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Local transit
ISBN : 1138954241

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Lost in the Transit Desert by Diane Jones Allen Pdf

This book investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these 'transit deserts', and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected. Diane Jones uses research from New Orleans, Baltimore and Chicago to explore the forces at work in these situations, as well as proposing potential solutions.

Author : Prince Jason Prince
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551646619

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Free Public Transit by Prince Jason Prince Pdf

Just like we don't pay to use elevators, this book argues that we shouldn't pay to ride public transit. In an age of increasing inequalities and ecological crisis, movements advocating free public transit push us to rethink the status quo and consider urban transit as a fundamental human right. Editors Jason Prince and Judith Dellheim have collected a panorama of case studies from around the world: the United States, Canada, Estonia, Greece, France, Italy, Sweden, Poland, China, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and more. These movements are spread across the world, and they aim to achieve two main outcomes-ecological good and fair wealth distribution. Free public transit-coupled with increased capacity and improving service of public transit-might well be the only viable strategy to eliminating car usage and achieving greenhouse gas targets in industrialized cities within a reasonable timeframe. Movements for free mass transit also aim to see public transit treated as a public good, like water and garbage service, that should be paid for out of general tax revenues or a fairer regional tax strategy. This book covers the rapidly changing transport options in cities today, including bike and car share options, Uber and Lyft, and the imminent arrival of driver-less vehicles. The first English-language book ever written on the subject, Free Public Transit is a ground breaking book for those concerned about the future of our cities and an essential resource for those who make, or try to change, urban planning and transport policies.

Author : Karen Chapple,Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262039840

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Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? by Karen Chapple,Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Pdf

An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning literature and various policy interventions in recent decades, we still understand little about what happens to neighborhoods and residents with the development of transit systems and the trend toward more compact cities. Research has failed to determine why some neighborhoods change both physically and socially while others do not, and how race and class shape change in the twenty-first-century context of growing inequality. Drawing on novel methodological approaches, this book sheds new light on the question of who benefits and who loses from more compact development around new transit stations. Building on data at multiple levels, it connects quantitative analysis on regional patterns with qualitative research through interviews, field observations, and photographic documentation in twelve different California neighborhoods. From the local to the regional to the global, Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris examine the phenomena of neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement not only through an empirical lens but also from theoretical and historical perspectives. Growing out of an in-depth research process that involved close collaboration with dozens of community groups, the book aims to respond to the needs of both advocates and policymakers for ideas that work in the trenches.

Author : ʻUmar Hišām aš- Šihābī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1783712201

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Transit States by ʻUmar Hišām aš- Šihābī Pdf

The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the working population is composed of temporary, migrant workers with no citizenship rights. The cheap and transitory labour power these workers provide has created the prodigious and extraordinary development boom across the region, and neighbouring countries are almost fully dependent on the labour markets of the Gulf to employ their working populations. For these reasons, the Gulf takes a central place in contemporary debates around migration and labour in the global economy. This book attempts to bring together and explore these issues. The relationship between 'citizen' and 'non-citizen' holds immense significance for understanding the construction of class, gender, city and state in the Gulf, however too often these questions are occluded in too scholarly or overly-popular accounts of the region. Bringing together experts on the Gulf, Transit States confronts the precarious working conditions of migrants in a accessible, yet in-depth manner.