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The Public Place:
Safe Routes to Schools:
Traffic collisions are the number one killer of young people in North America - and 75% of those who die are pedestrians or cyclists. Our society has responded to these statistics by denying children the independence to move about their neighbourhoods on their own. Safe Routes to Schools offers residents' association and school communities a user-friendly approach for reclaiming neighbourhoods as safe and walkable places for children.
40 Pages / $8.00 CDN [Add to Cart] [Checkout] [Currency Exchange] [Give Feedback]
Fortress America:
Across North America, residential communities are 'forting up'. Eight million Americans live in security-controlled gated communities and most are not super-rich but merely middle class. What is behind this trend away from community and toward isolation, and where will it lead? This is the first book-length examination of gated communities, and the authors' findings are extremely disturbing. Crucial reading.
192 Pages / $23.95 CDN, $16.95 US [Add to Cart] [Checkout] [Currency Exchange] [Give Feedback]
Just Transportation:
An incisive collection of essays by a wide range of environmental and transportation activists, lawyers and scholars that trace the history of transportation in North America, explore the dynamics of disparate incomes and transit equity, and address the impact of the transportation policy on inner city environment.
A worthy successor to Access for All, Schaeffner and Sclar's long out-of-print 1975 classic work on transportation equity.
$18.95 CDN [Add to Cart] [Checkout] [Currency Exchange] [Give Feedback]
Moving Violations:
A veteran reporter with ABC-TV, Hockenberry writes with passion about his life (including reporting an assignment to the war-torn Middle East) in a wheelchair.
He unmasks the fear and ignorance that underlies discrimination against disabled people, and explains how his disability became an impetus for achievement.
This brilliantly written, inspiring memoir is essential reading on access and equity.
Hardcover / 371 Pages / $19.95 CDN, $14.95 US [Add to Cart] [Checkout] [Currency Exchange] [Give Feedback]
Reclaiming our Cities and Towns:
Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns is a powerful tool for community activists who want to take control of their streets, neighbourhoods, towns and cities.
For many people, our cities and towns have become frightening, unpleasant places. The streets are scary; the noise, deafening; the air, unbreathable; the traffic, unbearable.
Author David Engwicht offers hope - a wealth of new perspectives, concrete examples and practical hints for anyone who wants to make their neighbourhood more liveable. It will change your idea of what is possible in the urban environment.
192 Pages / $15.95 CDN [Add to Cart] [Checkout] [Currency Exchange] [Give Feedback]
We
Are Traffic! With traffic congestion,
pollution, and road rage on the rise, growing numbers around the world
are advocating for transportation alternatives, and Critical Mass is
at the cutting edge of this mindset. We Are Traffic! presents a fascinating
analysis of Critical Mass, a modern political movement which challenges
the very notion of what a political movement should look like and how
it should function. This unique video shows how Critical
Mass has brought together great numbers of complete strangers in
an exuberant, commercial-free public space filled with creativity and
unpredictability.
50 Minutes
Sustainable Transportation Organizing
& Action Resource Kit This extensive how-to binder covers topics from fundraising to facts
and figures on the costs of the car, from organizing a good meeting
to writing a press release, from taking on City Hall to electronic networking.
It provides practical case studies of transportation events that you
can adapt to your own community. An essential resource for any transportation
group's organizing and action.
160 Pages (8.5 x 11)/ $20 CDN/ $15 US
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Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence [Add
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The Round Album: Need something to listen to while you read up on sustainable transportation??
This is the first-ever CD by the world's only Choir on Bikes. That's
right, they sing and ride at the same time. The Round Album features
15 songs, both adapted and original, that celebrate the virtues and
beauty of the bike with lots of humour and a dash of politics. Song
Cycles specializes in 'bicyclized' lyrics to well known standards like
Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' and 'Teddy Bear's Picnic'. One highlight is
the saucy, original 'Two Wheel Tango' in praise of sexy 'gentlemen on
bikes'.
The perfect gift for the cyclist in your life, or someone who could
use some entertaining persuasion. You can be sure they won't have anything
like it!
CD / 15 songs / 48 Minutes / $15.00 (US/CAN)
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Reactions and Actions 
Citizen Participation in the Neighbourhood and the City
Dimitrios Roussopoulos
Black Rose Books, 1999
The ABCs of Getting Your Kids There in One Piece
Tom Samuels
Greens$aver, 1996
Gated Communities in the United States
Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder
Brookings Inst., 1997
Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility
Robert D. Ballard and Glenn S.
Johnson, eds.
New Society, 1997
Wheelchairs, War Zones and Declarations of Independence
John Hackenberry
Hyperion, 1996
Better Living with Less Traffic
David Engwicht
New Society Publishers, 1993
Ted White
1999
Price for Individuals & Non-Profits: $29.99 CDN, $19.99 US
Price for Institutions: $99.95 CDN / $66.50 US
Order "We Are Traffic!" for Non-profit
& Individuals or Institutional
Transportation Options, 1996
Peter Newman & Jeffery Kenworthy
Island Press, 1998
Song Cycles & The Choir on Bikes
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