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Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities. By David Bissell
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Adey, P and Holdsworth, C and Lorimer, H and Merriman, P and Schwanen, T and Stratford, E and Bissell, D, Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities. By David Bissell, Cultural Geographies, 27, (1) pp. 163-174. ISSN 1474-4740 (2020) [Review Single Work]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1474474019871658
Abstract
Focused both on how commuting is transforming cities and on ‘how to think commuting differently’, in this eloquent and thoughtful book, David invites the reader to consider the power inherent in the question how itself – a power that enables radical open-endedness. Thus, David asks us to think about commuting and cities as transactional and transformational, quotidian and extraordinary, intimate and global. Even though Sydney, Australia, is the epicentre of David’s work, Transit Life is multiscalar and accounts for varied rhythms and times. Its approach to understanding is deeply empathic, and touches on people’s bodies, their homes, streets, rail-lines, cars, bus shelters, tramcars, offices and other sites, paths and nodes ... the list is exhaustive, never tiresome.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Review Single Work |
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| Keywords: | geographies, mobilities, transit, commuting, qualitative research, academic critique |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Human geography |
| Research Field: | Social geography |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
| UTAS Author: | Stratford, E (Professor Elaine Stratford) |
| ID Code: | 135567 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
| Deposited By: | College Office - CALE |
| Deposited On: | 2019-11-01 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-01-29 |
| Downloads: | 2 View Download Statistics |
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