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Re-thinking Mobility Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Re-thinking Mobility Poverty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book seeks to better conceptualise and define mobility poverty, addressing both its geographies and socio-economic landscapes. It moves beyond the analysis of ‘transport poverty’ and innovatively explores mobility inequalities and social construction of mobility disadvantages. The debate on mobility poverty is gaining momentum due to its role in triggering social exclusion and economic deprivation. In this light, this book examines the social construction of mobility poverty by delving into mobility patterns and needs as they are differently experienced by social groups in different geographical situations. It considers factors such as the role of transport regimes and their social ...

Evolutionary Paths Towards the Mobility Patterns of the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Evolutionary Paths Towards the Mobility Patterns of the Future

This edited volume presents new insights and challenges in the field of electric mobility in relation to new mobility and infrastructure concepts as well as to renewable energies. The book covers the socio-economic view on the topic as well as technical aspects and thus offers valuable knowledge for future business models. It primarily addresses practitioners and researchers in the field but may also be of use to graduate students.

Platformization and Informality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Platformization and Informality

In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore the complex relationship between platformization and informality through a different lens. Drawing on extensive theoretical, quantitative and qualitative scholarship, they provide both a useful overview and insights into the lived realities of gig work for platforms covering a range of skills, working conditions, and forms of algorithmic management. Platform work has attracted considerable attention from scholars in the global North, who have tended to view it as a form of casualisation of work that was previously regulated. But what about the global South, where...

Mumbai / Bombay
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Mumbai / Bombay

Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity. This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India. The book assesses Mumbai’s present trajectories and processes as being embedded in its recent past. It looks at these changes by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; and shows how financialisation, land speculation, deregulation, and informality have impacted the city’s culture and everyday living. The contributors to this volume analyse t...

Urban Commons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Urban Commons

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-16
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons means that the much sought-after productivity of the city precedes rather than results from strategies of the state and capital. This approach challenges assumptions of urbanization as capital-driven, an idea which resonates with a range of recent urban social movements, from the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement to the “Right to the City” alliance. However commons exist in a tense relationship with state and market, both of which continually seek to exploit and control them. Initiatives to create “commons” are welcomed and even facilitated ...

Feeding the Machine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Feeding the Machine

Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network of organisations that maintain this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI. Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork over more than a decade, this book shows us the lives of the workers often deliberately concealed from view and the systems of power that determine their future. It shows how AI is an extraction machine that churns through ever-larger datasets and feeds off humanity’s labour and collective intelligence to power its algorithms. Feeding the Machine is a call to arms against this exploitative system and details what we need to do, individually and collectively, to fight for a more just digital future.

Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective

This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families, aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times, and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment in migration dynamics. It develops an incisive dialogue between migration studies and gender studies. Migrant women, men and their families are studied through three different but interconnected and overlapping standpoints that have been identified as crucial for a gender approach: institutions and law, labour and the household economy, and social networks. The book also promotes the potential of an inclusive approach, tackling various types ...

Ride a Bike!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Ride a Bike!

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-23
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

Bicycles as a means of transport in cities are playing an ever more important role. The reasons are: reduction of motorcar traffic, sustainable traffic planning, reduction of noise and exhaust emissions, enhancement of the value of public space, healthier form of transport, savings potential in national health services and infrastructure expenditure. The book illustrates urban design ideas and architectural projects which go far beyond purely redesigning road layouts; its eight essays focus on the trend in urban design, landscape design, and traffic planning, it introduces nine exemplary bicycle traffic concepts in various cities (Barcelona, Copenhagen, New York, and Oslo amongst others), and presents 28 forward-looking individual bicycle infrastructure projects.

Adreß- und Geschäfts-Handbuch für die kgl. bayer. Kreis-Haupt- und Universitäts-Stadt Würzburg
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 650
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 328

Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte entwickelt sich häufig fernab der wichtigsten historiografischen Strömungen. So wie viele andere Interessengebiete der Geschichte sind die polnischen und deutschen Forschungen zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte keinesfalls ein Beispiel für die beiderseitige Kenntnisnahme und Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaftlern, sondern allenfalls für parallele Erfahrungen. Wie präsentiert sich heute die polnische wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Forschung? Eine Antwort auf diese Frage bietet – wenn auch nur ausschnittsweise – die vorliegende sechste Folge von Historie. Neben der Wirtschaftsgeschichte werden auch Themen der Erinnerungsforschung und der Besatzungsgeschichte behandelt. Gleich drei Generationen polnischer und deutscher Historiker haben zu dieser Folge beigetragen. Mit Beiträgen von: Markus Denzel, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, Patrick Giebel, Lucas Elsner, Clara Frysztacka, Michal Galas, Jeannine Harder, Jacek Kochanowicz, Kornelia Konczal, Michal Kopczynski, Marek Kornat, Wolf Lepenies, Cecylia Leszczynska, Artur Lipinski, Hubert Orlowski, Anna Sosnowska, Maciej Salamon, Henryk Samsonowicz, Katrin Steffen, Niklas Steinert, Robert Traba