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Cities and transit agencies, including the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), are interested in shifting travel from solo driving to more sustainable modes, including transit, biking, walking, and other non-auto modes. As LA Metro and other agencies collect more data about their system and its users, there are many opportunities to apply that data to productively improve the system and drive policy. In this project, our primary goal was to identify a set of specific indicators Metro and other agencies could use to measure their success in the creation and provision of a high-quality non-auto mobility system for both existing users reliant on these modes as well as future users who shift from driving.

Cities and transit agencies, including the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), are interested in shifting travel from solo driving to more sustainable modes, including transit, biking, walking, and other non-auto modes. As LA Metro and other agencies collect more data about their system and its users, there are many opportunities to apply that data to productively improve the system and drive policy. In this project, our primary goal was to identify a set of specific indicators Metro and other agencies could use to measure their success in the creation and provision of a high-quality non-auto mobility system for both existing users reliant on these modes as well as future users who shift from driving.

Works on Indigenous histories have long been sites for both the production and application of theoretical models. In this chapter, I examine the emergence of a school of histories of settler colonialism, locating it within a genealogy that has built upon and critiqued frontier histories in Australia and the U.S. The frontier as a method has led historians to return to its performative representations in order to understand settler colonial relations and to emphasise continuities and draw histories into the present. This chapter traces the influence of frontier historiographies of the late nineteenth century, before turning to revisionist moves first to include Indigenous people and colonial violence in these accounts and second to do away with the frontier model and instead examine contact zones, middle grounds, borderlands, and Indigenous political formations. More recently, many historians have returned to the frontier motif to insist on the continuity of the relationships developed during persistent struggles over land and sovereignty. But though some of these histories centre Indigenous perspectives, some others adopting a similar analytic have neglected Indigenous politics and agency: the chapter calls for a renewed attention to Indigenous social structures, articulated with but not necessarily dominated by those structures of invasion inaugurated on frontiers.

At a time when Indigenous political movements in Australia insist that settler authorities reckon with powerful claims for treaty, recognition of sovereignty and Indigenous political representation, one is inevitably drawn to consider possibilities for political change. How can decolonisation be more than metaphor in a settlercolonial situation? What are the horizons of justice? These questions are central to Tim Rowse’s Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901, which, in surveying and reflecting on the past 118 years of Australian settler-colonial policy thinking and practice, historicises the narrowing confines within which emancipation might be imagined or actualised.

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory. By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government. Responding to crises of social reproduction, public power, and legitimacy, they re-thought the scope of settler colonial government by drawing on both the art of indirect rule and on a representational economy of Indigenous elimination to develop a new political dispensation that sought to incorporate and consume Indigenous production and sovereignties. This book locates Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental context.