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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 — 903 ratings — published 2011
Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 177 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 — 798 ratings — published 2019
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,087 ratings — published 2012
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.11 — 845 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 4.20 — 477 ratings — published 2006
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,130 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,266 ratings — published 2016
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,785 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 — 874 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 — 348 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 4.15 — 204 ratings — published 2008
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as transit)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,729 ratings — published 2014
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as transit)
avg rating 4.41 — 198 ratings — published 2024
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as transit)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,800 ratings — published 2023
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transit)
avg rating 4.14 — 660 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 — 8,258 ratings — published 2008
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,488 ratings — published 2025
Human Transit (Revised Edition): How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.51 — 135 ratings — published
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.13 — 839 ratings — published 2024
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.21 — 385 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 3.74 — 80 ratings — published
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.39 — 716 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 — 134 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 — 194 ratings — published 2016
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.06 — 616 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 4.49 — 174 ratings — published
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.11 — 701 ratings — published 2024
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.04 — 671,634 ratings — published 1995
A Shining (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 14,449 ratings — published 2023
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,744 ratings — published 2020
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.81 — 385 ratings — published 1993
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.00 — 678 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 4.21 — 245 ratings — published
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.05 — 99 ratings — published
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.38 — 652 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 3.81 — 278 ratings — published 2016
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.79 — 486 ratings — published 2013
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.00 — 95 ratings — published
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.19 — 331 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 — 619 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 3.56 — 85 ratings — published 2013
Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.83 — 599 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 4.13 — 89 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 — 2,109 ratings — published 1985
Transport for Suburbia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 64 ratings — published 2009
“Developing new neighborhoods without rapid transit would be like building a forty-story office tower without an elevator.”
― Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
― Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
“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
