- American Ground Transport
A Proposal for Restructuring the Automobile, Bus and Rail Industries
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Automotive Industries Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Banning Cars from Manhattan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1961
By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Car Care Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
As "smarter" vehicles provide storehouses of personal information, carmakers are building databases of consumer preferences that could be sold to outside vendors for marketing purposes, much like Google and Facebook.
- The Case Against the Auto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
The issue of transportation cannot be separated from how communities are organized. The way in which worksites and residences are laid out on the earth’s surface presupposes a means of getting around.
- The City and Radical Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- Connexions Library: Transportation Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on transportation.
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- The Design of Everyday Things
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
- Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The driverless personal car is quickly emerging without a legal, ethical and priorities framework, when priorities should be placed on safer, more efficient and less polluting means of transport.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Ecology as Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
- EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the right to inspect and modify the software in their cars and other vehicles, despite protests from vehicle manufacturers.
- The Green Car Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Analyses the likely developments emerging to deal with environmental issues, and how vehicle makers and motorists will have to react.
- Gute Argumente: Verkehr
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
- How Cars Drive Inequality
An Exclusive Form of Travel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Studies show that in car oriented cities are poor are less likely to rise the socioeconomic ladder than in transit and pedestrian oriented cities.
- How Things Don't Work
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Pananek and Hennessey focus on appliances, tooks, and devices that are at the nub of modern living. They show how some of our most cherished possessions, ranging from simple household fixtures to sophisticated electronics, don't work, and challenge us to rethink the uses of technology to demand and create products that are useful, built to human scale, safe, ecologically sound, and inexpensive.
- How to Get Along With Your Car
Resource Type: Book
- How to Get More Miles per Gallon in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- How to Get More Miles Per Gallon in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Just Another Car Factory?
Lean Production and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- The Life of the Automobile
Resource Type: Book
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
A history of American English.
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An analysis of American capitalism.
- Nature of Economies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
- The Newsletter
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
- Ontario Distracted Driving Legislation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Ontario distracted driving legislation comes into effect next Monday. The new law makes it illegal for drivers to talk, text, type, or dial using hand-held cell phones and other hand-held communication and entertainment devices.
- Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
Better Living with Less Traffic
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
- Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- Transport Policy and the Environment
Six Case Studies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- The True Costs of Driving
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Cortright highlights the costs behind building and maintaining roads as well as what part of public taxes fund such an expensive venture.
- Understanding Media
The Extensions of Man
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
McLuhan says that the means by which people communicate determine their thoughts and actions.
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
- Why a Future Ride in a Self-Driving Car Could Be a Trip to Advertising Hell
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
There's nothing marketers love more than a captive audience. And people don't get any more captive than when they're sitting in a car. That's a powerful motivation for companies developing automated cars, beyond the technical innovation that has made such a vision possible.
- World of Wheels magazine celebrates 25 years
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
World of Wheels magazine published by Formula Media Group celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, a remarkable feat in the highly competitive world of auto magazines on both sides of the border
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