1. Banning Cars from Manhattan
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1961
   By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
2. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
3. Cars and Class
   "A Reckless, Blood-Thirsty, Villainous Lot ... "
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Making life difficult for cars could be, in fact, described as a form of class war, but one that works in the long-term interests of the poor and working class.
4. The Case Against the Auto
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1990
   The issue of transportation cannot be separated from how communities are organized. The way in which worksites and residences are laid out on the earth’s surface presupposes a means of getting around.
5. The City and Radical Social Change 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
6. Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus 
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
7. Connexions Library: Transportation Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on transportation.
8. Dark Age Ahead
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
9. The Design of Everyday Things 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1988
   A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
10. Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The driverless personal car is quickly emerging without a legal, ethical and priorities framework, when priorities should be placed on safer, more efficient and less polluting means of transport.
11. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
12. Ecology as Politics 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
13. Gute Argumente: Verkehr
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
14. How Cars Drive Inequality
    An Exclusive Form of Travel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Studies show that in car oriented cities are poor are less likely to rise the socioeconomic ladder than in transit and pedestrian oriented cities.
15. How Things Don't Work
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Pananek and Hennessey focus on appliances, tooks, and devices that are at the nub of modern living. They show how some of our most cherished possessions, ranging from simple household fixtures to sophisticated electronics, don't work, and challenge us to rethink the uses of technology to demand and create products that are useful, built to human scale, safe, ecologically sound, and inexpensive.
16. How to Get More Miles per Gallon in the 1990s
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
17. Just Another Car Factory?
    Lean Production and Its Discontents
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
18. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
19. The Life of the Automobile
    Resource Type: Book
    
20. Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    An analysis of American capitalism.
21. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
    Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
22. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
23. Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
    Better Living with Less Traffic
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
24. Removing Freeways - Restoring Cities
    The Movement Has Begun
    Resource Type: Website
    A website with the histories of the freeway removals that have occurred in the United States and around the world.
    
25. Stop Signs
    Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.
26. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
27. Transport Policy and the Environment
    Six Case Studies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
28. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
29. What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
30. Why a Future Ride in a Self-Driving Car Could Be a Trip to Advertising Hell
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    There's nothing marketers love more than a captive audience. And people don't get any more captive than when they're sitting in a car. That's a powerful motivation for companies developing automated cars, beyond the technical innovation that has made such a vision possible.

Experts on Automobile in the Sources Directory

1. The Preservation Institute