Astrid Wood • How Cities learn

Tracing Bus Rapid Transit in South Africa
How Cities Learn traces the circulation of bus rapid transit (BRT) to understand how and why it was widely adopted in South Africa.
Urban problems are becoming increasingly complex requiring the actors and institutions of governance to continually learn, adapt and innovate. But how does this learning happen? This book provides an extraordinary case study. It describes with uncommon clarity an intricate process of policy transfer involving global actors and circulations but also embedded local concerns, politics and governmental arrangements. It is essential reading for urban scholars and public policymakers.

Investigates the global proliferation and localization of BRT
Examines the production and distribution of transportation knowledge in the global south
Addresses the spatial and social legacy of apartheid in South African cities
Reveals a new way of understanding the intersections between policy, people and place
Essential reading for scholars of geography, politics, sociology and transportation, as well as urban planners and practitioners

Wiley, RGS-IBG Book Series, Paperback, english, 194 pages

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