Discourse analysis in transport and urban development : interpretation, diversity and controversy
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Discourse analysis in transport and urban development : interpretation, diversity and controversy
(NECTAR series on transportation and communications networks research / series editor: Aura Reggiani)
Edward Elgar, c2023
- : cased
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on discourse analysis, this innovative book takes a novel approach to examining the different interpretations, diversity of views and controversy in society about transport and urban development.
Combining theory with empirical case studies, this book breaks new ground in the field by critically engaging with an understanding of the different perspectives and subjectivities associated with transport systems and urban development projects. Incorporating the diverse wider societal and political contexts, various approaches to discourse analysis are examined, including content analysis, critical discourse analysis and Q methodology. Examining the narratives in transport and urban development, chapters study car advertising, highway reconstruction, public transport, bus provision, transit-orientated development and financialisation, walking and cycling networks, and emerging new technologies. Ultimately, the book argues that mainstream views and processes must be confronted in order to respond to contemporary public policy challenges, and makes a convincing case for the wider use of discourse analysis in transport and urban development research, planning and implementation.
Global in scope, this cutting-edge book will prove vital reading for students and scholars of transport planning and urban development. Its practical guidance will be useful to transport and development policymakers and practitioners working in urban and regional authorities, consultancies and civil society.
Table of Contents
Contents:
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgements xvi
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Using discourse analysis in transport and urban development research 2
Robin Hickman and Christine Hannigan
PART II GRAND NARRATIVES
2 Transport planning, paradigms and practices: finding
conditions for change 11
Ruben Akse, Adri Albert de la Bruheze and Karst Geurs
3 Exploring growth as a central representation in sustainable
transport discourse 24
Elias Isaksson
4 Discursive power dynamics affecting how climate targets are
framed and integrated in national transport planning: the case
of Sweden 39
Karolina Isaksson, Linnea Eriksson and Jacob Witzell
5 Stakeholders' perceptions of urban mobility in a Central
European country: a Q methodology approach 52
Hana Bruhova Folty nova, Eliska Vejchodska, Radomira
Jordova and Kristy na Rybova
6 The meta and master narratives of mega transport infrastructure 67
Daniel Durrant
PART III CASE STUDIES ON DISCOURSE, TRANSPORT
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
7 Car advertising and environmental greenwashing 80
Robin Hickman
8 The Interstate Highway 70 reconstruction project in Denver:
repeating a 1960s planning failure? 97
Andrew R. Goetz
9 Sustainability and shared ride-hailing in a mega-city: the
rhetoric and impacts of Uber Juntos in Sao Paulo 112
Leandro da Silva Correa and Anthony Perl
10 Legitimising HS2: analysing political speeches from 2010-2014 131
James Udagawa
11 Where are the rails? An investigation into the climate, future
prospects and barriers to high-speed rail development in Canada 149
Giacomo Vecia
12 Exploring bus reform in Malta 172
Therese Bajada
13 Cycling promotion and narratives of urban development: an
ecolinguistic approach 185
M. Cristina Caimotto
14 Community, authenticity and newness: obscuring financial
motivations in transport and development projects through
discourse at Battersea Power Station 198
Christine Hannigan
15 MaaS unmasked: how local leaders think they are resisting
(and are thereby accelerating) the neoliberalisation of transport policies 211
Nacima Baron
16 Anything that can reasonably be automated will be: analysis of
transport automation imaginaries in the Finnish context 228
Janne Olin and Milos N. Mladenovic
PART IV CONCLUSIONS
17 Next steps for discourse analysis in transport and urban development 242
Christine Hannigan and Robin Hickman
Index
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