Looking to feed your brain? These are some of the best books, articles, movies and podcasts we’ve found on the subject of transportation alternatives. If you’ve read something truly great and it’s not listed here, please let us know about it.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Farewell, My Subaru
Happy City: Transforming our Lives through Urban Design
The High Cost of Free Parking
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Rethinking A Lot
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Articles…
Transportation Emerges as Crucial to Escaping Poverty
Taking Out a Highway That Hemmed Rochester In
Mike Governale: Rochester Subway
James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
Jeff Speck: The Walkable City
Jeff Speck: 4 ways to make a city more walkable
Jarrett Walker: Oregon Transportation Summit
Janette Sadik-Khan: New York’s streets, not so mean any more
Leigh Gallagher: The suburbs are dying, so let’s create a new American Dream
Jonathon Stalls: Life at 3 MPH
Larry Burns: The future of cars
Nate Damm: Walking across America
Mark Gorton: Rethinking the Automobile
Talking Headways
Placemakers
99% Invisible
Freakonomics
Hidden Brain
ITE Talks Transportation
Third Wave Urbanism
The Urbanist
KunstlerCast – Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy
Episodes…
How Stuff Works: How Urban Planning Works
WXXI Connections: Walkable Suburbs
WXXI Connections: Woman Walks Every Street in Rochester
WXXI Connections: Sam Schwartz on the Future of Transportation
A Town Square: Conversations About Where We Live
Bike Share Worldwide
CityLab
Congress for New Urbanism (CNU)
Human Transit
Planetizen
Rochester Cycling Alliance (Resources Page)
RochesterSubway.com
Smart Growth America
Streetsblog
Streets for the People (SE Rochester)
Strong Towns
Transportation Alternatives
Urban Omnibus