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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 — 2,234 ratings — published 2016
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,607 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)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,530 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 — 8,215 ratings — published 2008
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,074 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 — 581,681 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)
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avg rating 4.50 — 14 ratings — published 2023
Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 232 ratings — published
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 98 ratings — published
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 640 ratings — published 2021
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 276 ratings — published 2016
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 480 ratings — published 2013
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.99 — 94 ratings — published
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance (Paperback)
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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 — 609 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 — 86 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)
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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
“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 head: 'Metro Center.' 'Fine, that's it, go on to the next one,' replied the general. And they did.”
― The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
― The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
