Transit


Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro (Creating the North American Landscape)
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
The High Cost of Free Parking
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Hindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces by Tapan BasuBicycles, Airships and Things that Go by Bernie McAllisterIt's Fun to Run by Brigitte CutshallTales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy BlumeTrain by Elisha Cooper
Sustainable Mobility For Kids
53 books — 4 voters
The Lost Subways of North America by Jake BermanSubway by John E. MorrisWalkable City by Jeff SpeckBuilding the Cycling City by Melissa BruntlettStructuring Intergovernmental Coordination by Timothy Almy
Transit Reading List
21 books — 2 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonDon't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo WillemsRosa by Nikki GiovanniLast Stop on Market Street by Matt de la PeñaThe Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole
Bus Rider
266 books — 24 voters
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinUrban Forests by Jill JonnesDetroit, I Do Mind Dying by Dan GeorgakasNinety Percent of Everything by Rose GeorgeThe Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones
Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)
120 books — 9 voters

“ In one extreme case, WMATA planner William Herman complained that the system's main transfer station was badly named. He argued that '12th and G' was both confusing (several entrances would be on other streets) and too undistinguished for so important a station. Ever reasonable, Graham agreed to let Herman choose a better name. 'I'll let you know,' responded a relieved Herman. 'No,' Graham explained, 'I'll give you twenty seconds.' Stunned, Herman blurted out the first words that came into his h ...more ”
― Zachary M. Schrag, The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

“ When a stretch of Eye Street was finally ready, he had the barricades gracefully opened by two trained bears on loan from the circus. As a result, both Metro and the circus got good press. Even then Pfanstiehl could not please everybody; a labor representative berated him for giving work to nonunion bears. ”
― Zachary M. Schrag, The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

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