Are Trams Socialist

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1907994580
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are Trams Socialist? written by Christian Wolmar and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ministers are regarded as minnows compared with their ‘big beast’ colleagues in other ministries. Successive governments have barely attempted to get to grips with the challenge of getting people around efficiently and safely while limiting the environmental damage caused by transport. In this entertaining polemic, Christian Wolmar, an author and journalist who has written about transport for over two decades, explains why politicians have not addressed the crucial issue of balancing transport needs with environmental considerations. Instead, they have been seduced by the popularity of the car and pressure from the car lobby, and they have been sidetracked by dogma. Solutions are at hand – and successful examples can be seen elsewhere in Europe – but courage and clear thinking are needed if they are to be implemented.

Author : Stuart Maconie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473562104
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nanny State Made Me written by Stuart Maconie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' Observer It was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes this isle has ever produced: it was the Welfare State, and it made you and I. But now it's under threat, and we need to save it. In this timely and provocative book, Stuart Maconie tells Britain’s Welfare State story through his own history of growing up as a northern working class boy. What was so bad about properly funded hospitals, decent working conditions and affordable houses? And what was so wrong about student grants, free eye tests and council houses? And where did it all go so wrong? Stuart looks toward Britain’s future, making an emotional case for believing in more than profit and loss; and championing a just, fairer society.

Author : Fabian van Onzen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004469621
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital written by Fabian van Onzen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital uses Marxist theory to explore how service and retail workers are exploited in contemporary capitalism and provides strategies for resisting monopoly capital

Author : Jessica Ferm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351203290
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning Practice written by Jessica Ferm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK provides the only comprehensive overview of contemporary planning practice in the UK. Drawing on contributions from leading researchers in the field, it examines the tools, contexts and outcomes of planning practice. Part I examines planning processes and tools, and the extent to which theory and practice diverge, covering plan-making, Development Management, planning gain, public engagement and place-making. Part II examines the changing contexts within which planning practice takes place, including privatisation and deregulation, devolution and multi-level governance, increased ethnic and social diversity, growing environmental concerns and the changing nature of commercial real estate. Part III focuses on how planning practice produces outcomes for the built environment in relation to housing, infrastructure, economic progress, public transport and regeneration. The book considers what it means to be a reflective practitioner in the modern planning system, the constraints and opportunities that planners face in their daily work, and the ethical and political challenges they must confront.

Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031392965
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hustlers, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians written by James Fowler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank W. Geels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009198246
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Reconfiguration written by Frank W. Geels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates a socio-technical reconfiguration approach to low-carbon system transitions for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
ISBN 13 : 191301925X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere? written by Christian Wolmar and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolmar's entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of the myths around that future's purported benefits.

Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789739551
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Transport written by James Fowler and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely assessment of a unique hybrid public body with a system of governance that once made London transport domestically popular and internationally admired: the London Passenger Transport Board.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book The Socialist Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lyubomir Pozharliev
Publisher : V&R unipress
ISBN 13 : 3737010048
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Socialism written by Lyubomir Pozharliev and published by V&R unipress. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 1945–1989. In the case study of Yugoslavia, the construction of roads was interrelated with building socialist and trans-ethnic identities, uniting all federal republics. In practice, the “Brotherhood and Unity Highway” was an artery linking the capitals of the most industrialized republics, neglecting Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and parts of Macedonia. In socialist Bulgaria existed a clear ideological link between transport and nation building. Bulgarian roads’ disintegrative function was best seen in the example of the “Highway Ring” which, constructed as an inner circle, isolated the border regions and areas inhabited by Bulgarian Muslims and Turks.