Professor Gordon H Pirie
University of Cape Town
Professor, Geography
South Africa
My co-authors include
Dr Christian Klösch
Dr Zarina Patel
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My Publications
China builds airports instead of air routes in Africa
African Geographical Review
April 2019
The article discusses China's airport projects in Africa. China has not prioritised its own commercial air links between Africa and China. This is an unusual pattern of overseas involvement in Af...
Regulation of British low-cost airlines flying to Africa in the 1950s.
The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History
April 2020
Chandra Bhimull, Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora
The Journal of Transport History
September 2018
Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in NairobiMutongiKenda, Mata...
The Journal of Transport History
December 2017
Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
May 2017
Book ReviewsHartJennifer, Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transpo...
The Journal of Transport History
March 2017
Key books, chapters, and research papers in African transportation
May 2016
Modalities in transport history
The Journal of Transport History
April 2016
Letters, Words, Worlds: the Naming of Soweto
January 2016
Making Transport History
The Journal of Transport History
December 2015
Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities
October 2015
Transport Horizons
The Journal of Transport History
June 2015
Tourism and empire
Journal of Tourism History
May 2015
Co-producing urban knowledge: experimenting with alternatives to ‘best practice’ for Ca...
International Development Planning Review
April 2015
Reflections on writing popular railway histories
The Journal of Transport History
December 2014
(Im)Measurable Transport History
The Journal of Transport History
June 2014
Spaces of Scandinavian Encounters in Colonial South Africa: Reconfiguring Colonial Disc...
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography
April 2014
On alcohol, transport and poverty in Cape Town
South African Geographical Journal
January 2014
Austro-German Transport Histories
The Journal of Transport History
December 2013
The state of transport geography research in South Africa
Journal of Transport Geography
July 2013
Revolutionary Limits in Transport
The Journal of Transport History
June 2013
Automobile organizations driving tourism in pre-independence Africa
Journal of Tourism History
April 2013
Editorial
The Journal of Transport History
December 2012
Book review
Journal of Transport Geography
November 2012
Transport Instrumentalities: Legacies and Levers
The Journal of Transport History
June 2012
Editorial
The Journal of Transport History
December 2011
Book review
Journal of Transport Geography
November 2011
Book review
Journal of Transport Geography
July 2011
USA-based ocean cruising linked into railway touring in South Africa.
African Historical Review
June 2011
Imag(in)ing the transport past
The Journal of Transport History
June 2011
Non-urban Motoring in Colonial Africa in the 1920s and 1930s
South African Historical Journal
March 2011
Editorial
The Journal of Transport History
December 2010
Geographies of empire: European empires and colonies c. 1880–1960
South African Geographical Journal
December 2010
The Cambridge History of South Africa. Volume 1: From early times to 1885
African Affairs
November 2010
Trajectories of North—South City Inter-relations: Johannesburg and Cape Town, 1994—2007
Urban Studies
July 2010
Journal of Transport Geography
July 2010
Journal of Transport Geography
July 2009
Incidental tourism: British Imperial air travel in the 1930s
Journal of Tourism History
March 2009
Journal of Transport Geography
May 2008
Introduction: Cultural crossings
The Journal of Transport History
March 2008
Reanimating a Comatose Goddess’: Reconfiguring Central Cape Town
Urban Forum
September 2007
First International African Conference on Gender, Transport and Development, Port Eliza...
Journal of Transport Geography
January 2007
Journal of Transport Geography
November 2006
Journal of Transport Geography
March 2006
‘Africanisation’ of South Africa’s international air links, 1994–2003
Journal of Transport Geography
January 2006
Researching Cape Town, 1990–2004
Urban Forum
October 2005
Journal of Transport Geography
June 2005
Passenger Traffic in the 1930s on British Imperial Air Routes: Refinement and Revision
The Journal of Transport History
March 2004
Newsreels and feature films about flying in the British Empire in the 1920s & 1930s
Historical Journal Of Film Radio and Television
June 2003
Transport and Development in the Third World
Journal of Transport Geography
March 1997
Brutish Bombelas
The Journal of Transport History
March 1997
In the land of the elephant bird: Voices of South Africa
Political Geography
January 1997
Book review
Urban Forum
June 1995
Railways and labour migration to the rand mines: constraints and significance
Journal of Southern African Studies
December 1993
Transport, food insecurity and food aid in sub-Saharan Africa
Journal of Transport Geography
March 1993
Railway Ganging in Southern Africa, c. 1900–37
The Journal of Transport History
March 1993
Slaughter by Steam: Railway Subjugation of Ox-Wagon Transport in the Eastern Cape and T...
The International Journal of African Historical Studies
January 1993
Rolling Segregation into Apartheid: South African Railways, 1948-53
Journal of Contemporary History
October 1992
Southern African Air Transport After Apartheid
The Journal of Modern African Studies
June 1992
Law, lawyers and racially segregated public transport in South Africa
African Studies
January 1992
REORIENTING AND RESTRUCTURING TRANSPORTATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
November 1991
Aviation, apartheid and sanctions: Air transport to and from South Africa, 1945?1989
GeoJournal
November 1990
‘A Most Difficult and Delicate Question’
The Journal of Transport History
September 1989
Implanting racial ideology: Bus apartheid in Cape Town
Social Dynamics
June 1989
Racial segregation on Johannesburg trams: Procedures and protest, 1904–1927
African Studies
January 1989
Dismantling railway apartheid in South Africa, 1975–1988
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
January 1989
Racial Segregation on South African Trains, 1910–1928: Entrenchment and Protest
South African Historical Journal
November 1988
HOUSING ESSENTIAL SERVICE WORKERS IN JOHANNESBURG: LOCATIONAL CONSTRAINT AND CONFLICT
Urban Geography
November 1988
Economic limits to bus apartheid in Cape Town 1948–1979
South African Journal of Economic History
March 1988
African township railways and the South African state, 1902–1963
Journal of Historical Geography
July 1987
The Cape Colony's ‘Railway Protector of Natives’, 1904
The Journal of Transport History
September 1986
Hostels for African migrants in greater Johannesburg
GeoJournal
March 1986
Johannesburg transport 1905–1945: African capitulation and resistance
Journal of Historical Geography
January 1986
The Township Question at Pilgrims Rest, 1894–1922
South African Historical Journal
November 1985
GEOGRAPHY IN SOUTH AFRICA
The Professional Geographer
November 1985
The Transformation of Johannesburg's Black Western Areas
Journal of Urban History
August 1985
South African urban history
Urban History
May 1985
Toward an Historical Geography of Missions in Nineteenth Century Southern Africa
South African Geographical Journal
April 1985
Race zoning in South Africa: board, court, parliament, public
Political Geography Quarterly
July 1984
Outcast Cape Town
Economic Geography
July 1984
The Sight and Soul of Sophiatown
Geographical Review
January 1984
Living under apartheid: Aspects of urbanization and social change in South Africa
Political Geography Quarterly
January 1984
Letters, words, worlds the naming of Soweto
African Studies
January 1984
On Spatial Justice
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
April 1983
Urban bus boycott in Alexandra township, 1957
African Studies
January 1983
Railway Plantations and Railway Sleepers in South Africa, 1910–1937
South African Forestry Journal
September 1982
Sleepers Beside Tracks: Housing in South Africa’s State Railway Corporation, 1910–1980
South African Geographical Journal
September 1982
THE DECIVILIZING RAILS: RAILWAYS AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
August 1982
Mostly ‘Jubek’
South African Geographical Journal
April 1982
The possibility and potential of public policy on accessibility
Transportation Research Part A General
October 1981
Problems of the carless
Transportation Research Part A General
October 1980
Transportation, temporal and spatial components of accessibility
Transportation Research Part A General
June 1980
The geography of the Afrikaner Broederbond in Namibia
Social Dynamics
December 1979
Time and a Welfare Approach to Human Geography
South African Geographical Journal
September 1979
Travel Data and Spatiotemporal Ecology
South African Geographical Journal
September 1979
Measuring Accessibility: A Review and Proposal
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
March 1979
Scaling and the logic of preference: A poser
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
January 1979
Aspects of Housing Allocation in Soweto
South African Geographical Journal
September 1977
CHARTING TRANSPORT COST SURFACES BY NONMETRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING
South African Geographical Journal
April 1977
Thoughts on Revealed Preference and Spatial Behaviour
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
December 1976