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.

Books by Podcast Guests VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)

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

There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster--Who Profits and Who Pays the Price

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The War on Cars Reading List VIEW LIST (62 BOOKS)

Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back

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

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

Bicycling for Ladies: The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress

The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life

On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City

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The War on Cars... For Kids! VIEW LIST (34 BOOKS)

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

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

Nanette's Baguette

Bicycle Bash

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