Dr Astrid Wood

Dr Astrid Wood
Assistant Professor in Geography

School of Geography, Politics and Sociology

Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU

For more information: Email Dr Astrid Wood - astrid.wood(at)newcastle.ac.uk

Key publications:

2018. Circulating planning ideas from the metropole to the colonies: understanding South Africa’ssegregated cities through policy mobilities. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, --(--) 1-18.

2017. Advancing development projects through mega-events: the 2010 football World Cup and busrapid transit in South Africa. Urban Geography, DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2017.1395604.

2016. Tracing policy movements: methods for studying learning and policy circulation. Environment and Planning A 48(2): 391-406.

2015. Multiple temporalities of policy circulation: Gradual, repetitive and delayed processes of BRT adoption in South African cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39(3): 568–580.

2015. The politics of policy circulation: unpacking the relationship between South American and South African cities in the adoption of bus rapid transit. Antipode 47(4): 1062-1079.

2015. Uncertainty and Urban Life. In collaboration with Zeiderman, Kaker and Silverman. Public Culture 27(2): 281-304.

2015. Competing for knowledge: leaders and laggards of BRT in South Africa. Urban Forum 26(2): 203-221.

2014. Moving policy: global and local characters circulating bus rapid transit through South African cities. Urban Geography 35(8): 1-17.

2014. Learning through policy tourism: circulating bus rapid transit from South America to South Africa. Environment and Planning A 46(11): 2654 – 2669.

Also see: Newcastle University, Google Scholar Citations; Imagining Urban Futures: Researching Policy Mobilities and Urban Politics; LinkedIn Profile; UCL Geography News