The War on Cars

The War on Cars presents a list of books by authors featured on the podcast, host favorites and other assorted titles related to the show.

Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
Crash Course: If You Want to Get Away with Murder Buy a Car
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
How Cycling Can Save the World
Sex Object: A Memoir
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Updated) (Updated)
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us)
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Sidewalks
Bicycle Diaries
Roads Were Not Built for Cars: How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring
Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road
Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels
We Move Together
City Streets Are for People
The Car That Wanted to be a Bike
Keeping the City Going
Kiri's First Ride to School
If You Give a Girl a Bike
Curious Casey's Cargo Bike Caper
Milo Imagines the World
Tokyo Digs a Garden
Big Nose, Big City
This Way, Watson!: A Map and Directions Primer
Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs
Duck on a Bike
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Bear on a Bike