The Car and the City: 24 Steps to Safe Streets and Healthy Communities

Contributing Organization(s): Sightline Institute


Author(s)/Creator(s): Alan Thein Durning

Publishing Date: 1996-06-01

Issue Areas: Energy and Environment; Transportation

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Access Note: The Car and the City is out of print, but you can download the pdf version for free with registration. Fact sheets and additional information available from URL.

Available at: http://www.sightline.org/publications/books/the-car-and-the-city/carcity
Many people recognize that the increasing number of automobiles is choking our cities--polluting our air, endangering our streets, and isolating us from our communities. This book shows how resurgent cities could make cars work again, and even solve problems ranging from oil wars to urban decay, rising seas to violent crime. Not just an analytic approach to economic and environmental urban concerns, The Car and the City is an offbeat journey through three great metropolises. Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver--by car, train, bicycle, and foot. It's a fascinating conversation with people who are quietly, but radically, rearranging the furniture of the modern city.

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Access Note: The Car and the City is out of print, but you can download the pdf version for free with registration. Fact sheets and additional information available from URL.

Available at: http://www.sightline.org/publications/books/the-car-and-the-city/carcity
ISBN: 1-886093-03-2

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many people these days surrender their own cars
Posted by: petty on Sat, 30 May 09 07:23:29 +0000

many people these days surrender their own cars (just like with my own cadillac parts cars) and prefer taking public transit. It only shows that we are seriously affected by higher gas prices. So they think mass transit is the only solution.

 


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