All Stories

  1. Contested Liabilities: Financing Trunk Air Route Facilities in British Colonial Africa, 1945–1951

    Article • The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, June 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  2. Tourism Histories in Africa

    Article • August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  3. Book Review: In the Forest of No Joy. The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by J. P. Daughton

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  4. Winging it across the Atlantic: Pan Am and Africa, 1940–1990

    Article • Journal of Transatlantic Studies, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  5. Colonial planning of Nairobi airports, 1933–1953

    Article • Planning Perspectives, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  6. Regulation of British low-cost airlines flying to Africa in the 1950s.

    Article • The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  7. China builds airports instead of air routes in Africa

    Article • African Geographical Review, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  8. Chandra Bhimull, Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  9. Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in NairobiMutongiKenda, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2017); 350pp., £22.50, ISBN 978-0226471396.

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, December 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  10. Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity

    Article • Journal of Modern Italian Studies, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  11. Book ReviewsHartJennifer, Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2016; 250 pp., US$35, ISBN 978-0253023070.

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  12. Key books, chapters, and research papers in African transportation

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  13. Modalities in transport history

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  14. Letters, Words, Worlds: the Naming of Soweto

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  15. Making Transport History

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  16. Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities

    Article • October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  17. Transport Horizons

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, June 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  18. Tourism and empire

    Article • Journal of Tourism History, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  19. Co-producing urban knowledge: experimenting with alternatives to ‘best practice’ for Cape Town, South Africa

    Article • International Development Planning Review, April 2015, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Zarina Patel, Professor Gordon H Pirie

  20. Reflections on writing popular railway histories

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  21. Book review

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  22. (Im)Measurable Transport History

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  23. Spaces of Scandinavian Encounters in Colonial South Africa: Reconfiguring Colonial Discourses

    Article • Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  24. On alcohol, transport and poverty in Cape Town

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  25. Austro-German Transport Histories

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Christian Klösch, Professor Gordon H Pirie

  26. The state of transport geography research in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  27. Revolutionary Limits in Transport

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, June 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  28. Automobile organizations driving tourism in pre-independence Africa

    Article • Journal of Tourism History, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  29. Editorial

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  30. Book review

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  31. Transport Instrumentalities: Legacies and Levers

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, June 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  32. Editorial

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  33. Book review

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, November 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  34. Book review

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  35. USA-based ocean cruising linked into railway touring in South Africa.

    Article • African Historical Review, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  36. Imag(in)ing the transport past

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, June 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  37. Non-urban Motoring in Colonial Africa in the 1920s and 1930s

    Article • South African Historical Journal, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  38. Editorial

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, December 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  39. Geographies of empire: European empires and colonies c. 1880–1960

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  40. The Cambridge History of South Africa. Volume 1: From early times to 1885

    Article • African Affairs, November 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  41. Trajectories of North—South City Inter-relations: Johannesburg and Cape Town, 1994—2007

    Article • Urban Studies, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  42. Article • Journal of Transport Geography, July 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  43. Article • Journal of Transport Geography, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  44. Incidental tourism: British Imperial air travel in the 1930s

    Article • Journal of Tourism History, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  45. Article • Journal of Transport Geography, May 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  46. Introduction: Cultural crossings

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, March 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  47. Reanimating a Comatose Goddess’: Reconfiguring Central Cape Town

    Article • Urban Forum, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  48. First International African Conference on Gender, Transport and Development, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 27–30 August 2006

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  49. Article • Journal of Transport Geography, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  50. Article • Journal of Transport Geography, March 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  51. Book Review: Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World, Bicycle, Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity, Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Repub...

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, March 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  52. ‘Africanisation’ of South Africa’s international air links, 1994–2003

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  53. Researching Cape Town, 1990–2004

    Article • Urban Forum, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  54. Article • Journal of Transport Geography, June 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  55. Passenger Traffic in the 1930s on British Imperial Air Routes: Refinement and Revision

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, March 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  56. Newsreels and feature films about flying in the British Empire in the 1920s & 1930s

    Article • Historical Journal Of Film Radio and Television, June 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  57. Transport and Development in the Third World

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, March 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  58. Brutish Bombelas

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, March 1997, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  59. In the land of the elephant bird: Voices of South Africa

    Article • Political Geography, January 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  60. Book review

    Article • Urban Forum, June 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  61. Railways and labour migration to the rand mines: constraints and significance

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, December 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  62. Transport, food insecurity and food aid in sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, March 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  63. Railway Ganging in Southern Africa, c. 1900–37

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, March 1993, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  64. Slaughter by Steam: Railway Subjugation of Ox-Wagon Transport in the Eastern Cape and Transkei, 1886-1910

    Article • The International Journal of African Historical Studies, January 1993, JSTOR

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  65. Rolling Segregation into Apartheid: South African Railways, 1948-53

    Article • Journal of Contemporary History, October 1992, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  66. Southern African Air Transport After Apartheid

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, June 1992, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  67. Law, lawyers and racially segregated public transport in South Africa

    Article • African Studies, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  68. REORIENTING AND RESTRUCTURING TRANSPORTATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, November 1991, Wiley

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  69. Aviation, apartheid and sanctions: Air transport to and from South Africa, 1945?1989

    Article • GeoJournal, November 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  70. ‘A Most Difficult and Delicate Question’

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, September 1989, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  71. Implanting racial ideology: Bus apartheid in Cape Town

    Article • Social Dynamics, June 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  72. Racial segregation on Johannesburg trams: Procedures and protest, 1904–1927

    Article • African Studies, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  73. Dismantling railway apartheid in South Africa, 1975–1988

    Article • Journal of Contemporary African Studies, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  74. Racial Segregation on South African Trains, 1910–1928: Entrenchment and Protest

    Article • South African Historical Journal, November 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  75. HOUSING ESSENTIAL SERVICE WORKERS IN JOHANNESBURG: LOCATIONAL CONSTRAINT AND CONFLICT

    Article • Urban Geography, November 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  76. Economic limits to bus apartheid in Cape Town 1948–1979

    Article • South African Journal of Economic History, March 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  77. African township railways and the South African state, 1902–1963

    Article • Journal of Historical Geography, July 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  78. The Cape Colony's ‘Railway Protector of Natives’, 1904

    Article • The Journal of Transport History, September 1986, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  79. Hostels for African migrants in greater Johannesburg

    Article • GeoJournal, March 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  80. Johannesburg transport 1905–1945: African capitulation and resistance

    Article • Journal of Historical Geography, January 1986, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  81. The Township Question at Pilgrims Rest, 1894–1922

    Article • South African Historical Journal, November 1985, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  82. GEOGRAPHY IN SOUTH AFRICA

    Article • The Professional Geographer, November 1985, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  83. The Transformation of Johannesburg's Black Western Areas

    Article • Journal of Urban History, August 1985, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  84. South African urban history

    Article • Urban History, May 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  85. Toward an Historical Geography of Missions in Nineteenth Century Southern Africa

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, April 1985, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  86. Race zoning in South Africa: board, court, parliament, public

    Article • Political Geography Quarterly, July 1984, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  87. Outcast Cape Town

    Article • Economic Geography, July 1984, JSTOR

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  88. Reviews: Segmented Worlds and Self: Group Life and Individual Consciousness, Hutchinson University Library for Africa. The African City, Formal Spatial Economic Analysis, Acid Rain: A Review of the Phenomenon in the EEC and Europe, Environmental Philos...

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, July 1984, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  89. The Sight and Soul of Sophiatown

    Article • Geographical Review, January 1984, JSTOR

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  90. Living under apartheid: Aspects of urbanization and social change in South Africa

    Article • Political Geography Quarterly, January 1984, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  91. Letters, words, worlds the naming of Soweto

    Article • African Studies, January 1984, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  92. On Spatial Justice

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, April 1983, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  93. Urban bus boycott in Alexandra township, 1957

    Article • African Studies, January 1983, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  94. Railway Plantations and Railway Sleepers in South Africa, 1910–1937

    Article • South African Forestry Journal, September 1982, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  95. Sleepers Beside Tracks: Housing in South Africa’s State Railway Corporation, 1910–1980

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, September 1982, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  96. THE DECIVILIZING RAILS: RAILWAYS AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, August 1982, Wiley

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  97. Mostly ‘Jubek’

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, April 1982, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  98. The possibility and potential of public policy on accessibility

    Article • Transportation Research Part A General, October 1981, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  99. Problems of the carless

    Article • Transportation Research Part A General, October 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  100. Transportation, temporal and spatial components of accessibility

    Article • Transportation Research Part A General, June 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  101. The geography of the Afrikaner Broederbond in Namibia

    Article • Social Dynamics, December 1979, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  102. Time and a Welfare Approach to Human Geography

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, September 1979, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  103. Travel Data and Spatiotemporal Ecology

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, September 1979, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  104. Measuring Accessibility: A Review and Proposal

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, March 1979, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  105. Scaling and the logic of preference: A poser

    Article • Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, January 1979, Elsevier

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  106. Aspects of Housing Allocation in Soweto

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, September 1977, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  107. CHARTING TRANSPORT COST SURFACES BY NONMETRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING

    Article • South African Geographical Journal, April 1977, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Gordon H Pirie

  108. Thoughts on Revealed Preference and Spatial Behaviour

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, December 1976, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gordon H Pirie