Book Reviews
Review of How to Live Well Without Owning a Car
A review of How to Live Well Without Owning a Car by Chris Balish.
To Ride the Public's Buses - The Fight That Built a Movement
A review of "To Ride the Public's Buses - The Fight That Built a Movement", which chronicled the disabled community's fight to make American transit agencies accessible to the disabled.
Review of Moving minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation
A review of Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation
Review of Waiting on a Train
A review of Waiting on a Train by James McCommons.
A Review of Driving Excellence
A book review of the book Driving Excellence: Transform Your Organization's Culture - An Achieve Revolutionary Results by Mark Aesch, CEO of the Rochester Genesee Transportation Authority.
Review of $20 Per Gallon by Christopher Steiner
This is a public transit-tinged review of $20 Per Gallon by Christopher Steiner.
Review of My Kind of Transit
This is a review of My Kind of Transit by Darrin Nordahl. His book, although it has some good ideas, generally ignores how transit can and does function in the real world.
Review of Human Transit by Jarrett Walker
A review of public transportation consultant Jarrett Walker's book Human Transit.
Review of Urban Mass Transit - The Life Story of a Technology
A review of Robert Post's book Urban Mass Transit - The Life Story of a Technology.
Review of Mass Motorization and Mass Transit
A review of Mass Motorization and Mass Transit by David W Jones.
Review of Curb Rights
This article reviews the book Curb Rights by Daniel Klein, Adrian Moore, and Binyam Reja. In this book, the authors argue that only complete deregulation (with the exception of curb rights) of the transit industry can save it.
Review of Bird on Fire
In Andrew Ross's latest book, he examines the factors that make Phoenix, in his opinion, the world's least sustainable city and what they can do to improve it.
Review of Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix (1860-2009)
This is a review of Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix (1860-2009) by Philip VanderMeer.
Review of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
This article is a transit-tinged review of the Death and Life of Great American Cities, one of the greatest books on planning ever written.
Review of The High Cost of Free Parking
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup is the seminal work on parking planning. In this review I examine how the book treats public transit.
Review of The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development
This article reviews The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development, edited by Hank Dittmar snd Gloria Ohland, and concludes that this is an excellent overview of transit-oriented development with one flaw - it was written in 2004.
Review of The Transit Metropolis by Robert Cervero
This is a review of The Transit Metropolis by Robert Cervero.
Review of A Century of Subways
This is a review of A Century of Subways (Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways) by Brian Cudahy.
Review of Zoned Out (Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation...)
This is a book review of Zoned Out by Jonathan Levine.
Review of Straphanger by Taras Grescoe
A review of Straphanger, a new book by Taras Grescoe.
Review of Public Transit Issues and Developments
Public Transit Issues and Developments goes over some of the criticisms of the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) New Starts Program as negotiations over a successor bill to SAFETEA-LU were ongoing in 2007 and 20008.
Review of Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age
A review of Transport For Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age by Paul Mees.
Review of Rail Tales: Adventures On Public Transit
This is a review of the self-published book by Brian Green called Rail Tales.
Review of Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities In the Twenty-First Century
This is a review of Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities In the Twenty-First Century, a self-published book available from Amazon.com
Review of Cities for People by Jan Gehl
A review of Cities for People by Jan Gehl.
Review of Making Public Transport Work
This is a review of Making Public Transport Work by Mark Bunting.
Review of Suburban Gridlock by Robert Cervero
A review of Suburban Gridlock by Robert Cervero.
Review of Better Public Transit Systems
A review of Better Public Transit Systems by Eric Bruun.
Review of Sustainable Transportation: Problems and Solutions
This is a review of Sustainable Transportation: Problems and Solutions by William Black.