Street Smarts: a transportation book club.
Read with us and learn more about the important transportation issues we face.
Transportation affects so many aspects of our lives. Join us as we delve deeper into the important transportation issues so that we can be better advocates for equitable transportation!
Add these titles to your nightstand.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
Grabar’s book ignited a national discussion about our built environment, particularly how the prioritization of parking has resulted in problems for housing development, transportation, and equity. In a city and state where transportation is the largest source of climate change pollution, local ordinances that require off-street parking have significant sustainability implications.
Bike Lanes are White Lanes
Melody L. Hoffman
The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white upwardly mobile bicyclists, leading to neighborhood conflicts and accusations of racist planning.
City Limits
Megan Kimble
Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways we built, the worse traffic got. Nowhere is this more visible than in Texas. In Houston, Dallas, and Austin, residents and activists are fighting against massive, multi-billion-dollar highway expansions that will claim thousands of homes and businesses, entrenching segregation and sprawl.
