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UNINA9910751389403321 |
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Cho-Yam Lau Joseph |
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Titolo |
Self-Organization and Mobility Deprivation of Poor Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore / / by Joseph Cho-Yam Lau |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 |
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9789819972654 |
9789819972647 |
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[1st ed. 2023.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Quality of Life in Asia, , 2211-0569 ; ; 18 |
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Sociology, Urban |
Well-being |
Transportation |
Urban policy |
Political planning |
Urban Sociology |
Well-Being |
Transportation Economics |
Urban Policy |
Public Policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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. |
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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- |
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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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UNINA9910157584003321 |
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Autore |
Wheeler Arville |
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White Squaw : The True Story of Jennie Wiley |
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Waipu : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 1958 |
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©1958 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (136 p.) |
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Captivity narratives |
Frontier and pioneer life |
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THE TRUE STORY OF JENNIE WILEY--WHITE SQUAWThomas and Jennie Wiley lived on Walker's Creek in Bland County, Virginia. In 1789 a small band of Indians attacked the Wiley cabin and killed Jennie's three older |
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children and her brother. Jennie was taken captive along with her baby son.Quickly the Indians and their captives moved westward into what is now Kentucky. Jennie's only hope for herself and her child was to keep pace with her captors. The Indians moved northwest into the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky. Unable to cross the flooded Ohio River, they retreated to a series of winter camps in present-day Carter, Lawrence and Johnson (Kentucky) Counties.With only a rock bluff for shelter Jennie spent the winter laboring as a slave. After almost a year in captivity Jennie escaped, miraculously evading pursuit as she made her way to a small settlement at Harman's Station on John's Creek where settlers helped her return to her husband.The author Arville Wheeler was inspired to write this book because his grandmother told him the story of Jennie Wiley when he was a child. |
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