Self-organization and mobility deprivation of poor workers in Hong Kong and Singapore [electronic resource] / Joseph Cho-Yam Lau.
2023
HN740.Z9 L38 2023
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Title
Self-organization and mobility deprivation of poor workers in Hong Kong and Singapore [electronic resource] / Joseph Cho-Yam Lau.
Author
Lau, Joseph Cho-yam, author.
ISBN
9789819972654 (electronic bk.)
9819972655 (electronic bk.)
9819972647
9789819972647
9819972655 (electronic bk.)
9819972647
9789819972647
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 232 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-99-7265-4 doi
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HN740.Z9 L38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.5/45
Summary
This book focuses on the influence of socio-economic and land-use policies on the commuting problems and quality of life of the poor in Singapore and Hong Kong. It considers the influence of self-organisation: how the mobility of an individual is constituted by structures such as transport systems or socio-economic structural factors, as well as influenced by individual decisions. Where most transport studies focus on the influence of factors such as income inequality, the gender gap, and the built environment, this book fills a gap in paying particular attention to the influence of individual decisions on commuting. Given the prevalence of the former in research, government decision-makers are often constrained by these approaches and fail to understand the commuting problems of the poor. This book argues that the self-organisation approach provides some ideas that are outside the common conceptual framework in conventional transport planning and looks to improve mobility of lower-income commuters. Relevant to social science researchers working in areas such as urban planning and transport, mobility deprivation, and poverty, this book breaks new ground in quality of life studies in the Singapore and Hong Kong contexts.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 24, 2023).
Series
Quality of life in Asia ; v. 18.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Influence of Government Policies and Individual Decisions on the Commuting of Poor Workers in Hong Kong
Impacts of Government Policies and Individual Decisions on the Commuting of Poor Workers in Singapore
Neighbourhood Effects Influence the Commuting of the Poor in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods of Hong Kong and Singapore
Impacts of the Suburbanization Policy on the Spatial Mismatch Commuting of Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore
Comparing Policies between Hong Kong and Singapore with a Focus on the Commuting of the Poor.
Influence of Government Policies and Individual Decisions on the Commuting of Poor Workers in Hong Kong
Impacts of Government Policies and Individual Decisions on the Commuting of Poor Workers in Singapore
Neighbourhood Effects Influence the Commuting of the Poor in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods of Hong Kong and Singapore
Impacts of the Suburbanization Policy on the Spatial Mismatch Commuting of Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore
Comparing Policies between Hong Kong and Singapore with a Focus on the Commuting of the Poor.