Looking for some good reads on transportation? Here is a place to start:
Mode Shift members can check out resources at the Omaha Bicycle Company in Benson.
Transit
- Human Transit: How clearer thinking about public transit can enrich our communities and our lives, by Jarrett Walker
- Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation, by Paul Weyrich and William Lind
- Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, by Taras Grescoe
- Solutionary Rail: A People-Powered Campaign to Electrify America’s Railroads and to Open Corridors to a Clean Energy Future, by Bill Moyer, Patrick Mazza, and the Solutionary Rail Team
Bicycling & Walking
- Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy, by Elly Blue
- Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities, by Jeff Mapes
- The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power, by Travis Hugh Culley
- Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, by Jeff Speck
- The Cyclist’s Manifesto: The Case for Riding on Two Wheels Instead of Four, by Robert Hurst
- Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile, by Katie Alvord
Driving & Parking
- Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, by Jane Holtz Kay
- The High Cost of Free Parking, by Donald Shoup
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), by Tom Vanderbilt
Planning & Design
- Cycle Space: Architecture & Urban Design in the Age of the Bicycle, by Steven Fleming
- Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, by Charles Montgomery
- Sprawl Repair Manual, by Galina Tachieva
- Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow
- Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia
- Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
- The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape, by James Howard Kunstler
- The Image of the City, by Kevin Lynch
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte
- The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life, by Jonathan F.P. Rose
- Great Streets, by Allan B. Jacobs
General
- Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation, by Edward Humes
- Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, by David Owen
- Thoughts on Building Strong Towns Vols I & II, by Charles L Marohn, Jr.
- Alliance for Biking & Walking’s Guide to Fundraising Rides, by David Hoffman, Sue Knaup, and Kristen Steele
- Tools for Grassroots Activists: Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement, edited by Nora Gallagher & Lisa Myers
Speed Gun
Mode Shift has its own Speed Gun! Mode Shift members can check out the speed gun at the Omaha Bicycle Company in Benson.
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