Big Books of 2026
Genres

Transit


Transit Books

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)
The High Cost of Free Parking
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
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The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinUrban Forests by Jill JonnesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasNinety Percent of Everything by Rose GeorgeThe Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones
Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)
118 books — 7 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 Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Bus Rider
267 books — 23 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
Bicycles, 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 CooperLittle Black, a Pony by Walter Farley
Sustainable Mobility For Kids
52 books — 3 voters

Quotes Tagged “Transit”

“ The greatest environmental gains from population density arise once destinations become so close to one another that people elect to get around all by themselves - the urban-transit equivalent of the point at which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining. ”
― David Owen, Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
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A.D. Aliwat
“ People like to talk a lot of shit about the MTA, but it’s really an amazing system, when you think about it. The trains run twenty-four hours. It serves something like four million people daily. Over a billion rides a year. And it does a pretty good job staying on schedule. Yeah, it could be a little cleaner, but it’s not so bad. ”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
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Videos Tagged “Transit”

Promotional Video: The Iron Horse, American Railroads, and the Queen City
Promotional Video: The Iron Horse, American Railroads, and the Queen City

Groups Tagged "Transit"

The Power Brokers, Redux We'll (re)read The Power Broker and take it from there!…more
3 members, last active 14 years ago
Not Exceeding Ten Miles Square A DC Urban Planning Book Club We meet in DC on the first Wednesday of even-numbered months to d…more
29 members, last active 11 months ago
This is a book group for all members of the New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens Facebo…more
46 members, last active 8 years ago