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  • Human Transit (Revised Edition)

    How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

    by Jarrett Walker ...
    An updated and expanded new edition of an acclaimed book about how to make public transportation work better for everyoneTransportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. In this revised edition of his acclaimed Human Transit*,* he provides the basic tools and critical questions needed to make smarter ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Human Transit

    How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

    by Jarrett Walker ...
    Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

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  • Killed by a Traffic Engineer

    Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System

    by Wes Marshall ...
    In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer roads that are literally killing us.Fixing the carnage on our roadways requires a change in mindset and a dramatic transformation of transportation. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Building the Cycling City

    The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

    by Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett ...
    In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world’s foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Strong Towns

    A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

    by Charles L. Marohn Jr. ...
    A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizesStrong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cities for People

    by Jan Gehl ...
    For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Making Transit Fun!

    How to Entice Motorists from Their Cars (and onto their feet, a bike, or bus)

    by Darrin Nordahl ...
    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    Why do people in Stockholm prefer to take the stairs over the escalator? Why do Londoners enjoy hanging out at bus stops? How do carmakers convince us to buy gas-guzzling, environmentally damaging, and wallet-draining machines? It's called the fun theory. What Darrin Nordahl illustrates in this delightful book is that transit can be just as inviting, exciting, and even seductive as the automobile, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The TTC Story

    The First Seventy-five Years

    by Mike Filey ...
    Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation.The TTC Story:The First Seventy-five Years, by Mike Filey, features over one hundred magnificent black and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Transit Metropolis

    A Global Inquiry

    by Robert Cervero ...
    Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives to car travel. What sets these places apart?In this book, noted transportation expert ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Urban Street Design Guide

    by National Association of City Transportation Officials ...
    The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Streetcars of America

    by Brian Solomon, John Gruber ...
    Series Book 779 - Shire Library USA
    The handsome multicolored streetcar is a nostalgic icon of the some of the most romantic and heritage-rich locales in America, including San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago, immortalised on stage and screen in classics including 'Meet Me In St Louis' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Streetcars of America chronicles these vehicles from the earliest animal-drawn carriages to the height of their ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The London DMS

    by Matthew Wharmby ...
    Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see nationwide possibilities and savings in legislation that was about to permit double-deck one-man ... Read more

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