Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
by Veronica O. Davis
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Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? How do you change a system that continues to divide communities and cede to the automobile?In Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for show more Repairing Divided Communities, transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering. She calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks that connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other.Inclusive Transportation is a vision for change and a new era of transportation planning. Davis explains why centering people in transportation decisions requires a great shift in how transportation planners and engineers are trained, how they communicate, the kind of data they collect, and how they work as professional teams. She examines what "equity" means for a transportation project, which is central to changing how we approach and solve problems to create something safer, better, and more useful for all people.Davis aims to disrupt the status quo of the transportation industry. She urges transportation professionals to reflect on past injustices and elevate current practice to do the hard work that results in more than an idea and a catchphrase.Inclusive Transportation is a call to action and a practical approach to reconnecting and shaping communities based on principles of justice and equity. show lessTags
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I suppose I was expecting more of a book for laypeople, and the introduction made me think it was for all audiences, but based on the content, it's really not. The audience seems to be urban planners. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I didn't understand some of the terminology and didn't really see how non-urban planners fit into the picture. Although I suppose it was an interesting glimpse of the reality of urban planning.
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- Original publication date
- 2023-07-13
- Dedication
- To Eliana, Owen, and Olivia.
You are the next generation.
May you continue the legacy. - First words
- Show me a transportation network and I will tell you the values of the decision-makers who designed it.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)What do you owe the world? You owe the world your brilliance and your empathy.
- Publisher's editor
- Lix, Courtney
- Blurbers
- butler, tamika l.; Tregoning, Harriet
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 388.0973 — Society, government, & culture Commerce, communications & transportation regulations Transportation General Biography; History By Place North America United States
- LCC
- HE203 .D42 — Social sciences Transportation and communications Transportation and communications
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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