CITIES, MOBILITY & A VISION FOR A BETTER AMERICA – NONFICTION

Charles C. Bohl’s The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1: (1980-2010), co-authored with James Dougherty, showcases how visual communication has transformed community planning and placemaking. Featuring hundreds of works by more than 100 practitioners, the book includes plans, renderings, streetscapes, precedent studies, and photographs spanning the movement’s history to contemporary hand-drawn and digital techniques. In the United States, our roads are literally killing us, with a death toll of nearly 4 million lives lost since we began counting them in 1899. Wes Marshall’s Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System examines traffic engineering, and the need for a shift away from speed and toward safety, quality of life, equality, and planetary health. Juan Mullerat’s The Urban Calendar: 365 Days That Shaped the Urban World is a daily urban almanac that invites you to explore the events, ideas, and decisions that have shaped cities around the globe. Because cities don’t just happen – people, policies, and turning points shape them. In Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, journalist Angie Schmitt notes that traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. But many injuries and fatalities suffered on the road are not unavoidable “accidents,” and disproportionately, the victims are immigrants, poor, and people of color. Schmitt calls for acknowledging the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths. Moderated by Victor Dover, author of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns.

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Buy The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1: (1980-2010) – Bohl

Buy Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System – Marshall

Buy The Urban Calendar: 365 Days That Shaped the Urban World – Mullerat

Buy Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America – Schmitt

Buy Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns – Dover