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Transit Books
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Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as transit)
avg rating 4.37 — 894 ratings — published 2011
Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 175 ratings — published
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as transit)
avg rating 4.24 — 791 ratings — published 2019
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,898 ratings — published 2012
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.11 — 843 ratings — published 2011
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro (Creating the North American Landscape)
by (shelved 9 times as transit)
avg rating 4.19 — 473 ratings — published 2006
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,104 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,235 ratings — published 2016
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,608 ratings — published 2012
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 869 ratings — published 2003
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as transit)
avg rating 4.13 — 336 ratings — published 2023
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 6 times as transit)
avg rating 4.16 — 198 ratings — published 2008
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as transit)
avg rating 4.43 — 187 ratings — published 2024
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as transit)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,532 ratings — published 2023
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as transit)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,706 ratings — published 2014
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transit)
avg rating 4.16 — 648 ratings — published
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as transit)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,216 ratings — published 2008
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,080 ratings — published 2025
Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.50 — 123 ratings — published
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.12 — 650 ratings — published 2024
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.22 — 367 ratings — published 2023
The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 3.79 — 78 ratings — published
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.39 — 700 ratings — published 2018
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.22 — 90 ratings — published
Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.08 — 26 ratings — published
Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.34 — 130 ratings — published 2014
BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 3.63 — 190 ratings — published 2016
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.06 — 614 ratings — published 2011
Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.51 — 163 ratings — published
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.06 — 582,191 ratings — published 1995
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.13 — 791 ratings — published 2024
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,594 ratings — published 2020
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.00 — 654 ratings — published 2012
Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.50 — 14 ratings — published 2023
Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.22 — 232 ratings — published
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.05 — 98 ratings — published
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.38 — 640 ratings — published 2021
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.80 — 276 ratings — published 2016
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.78 — 480 ratings — published 2013
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.99 — 94 ratings — published
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.19 — 330 ratings — published 2018
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.37 — 610 ratings — published 2020
The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.57 — 86 ratings — published 2013
Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.83 — 591 ratings — published 2012
Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.14 — 87 ratings — published
Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California's East Bay (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser. Book 40)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 32 ratings — published
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 2,090 ratings — published 1985
Transport for Suburbia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.35 — 63 ratings — published 2009
Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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avg rating 3.80 — 123 ratings — published 2012
The City Beneath Us: Building the New York Subway (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 59 ratings — published 2004
“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.”
― The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
― The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
“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.”
― Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
― Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
