The following selections were compiled by former Bike Athens Chair, Jason Henderson.

Beatly, Timothy (2000). Green Urbanism, Island Press.
This book discusses best practices in European transport and urban design and recommends practical ways to bring these ideas to the US.

Calthorpe, Peter (1993). The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. Princeton, NJ, Princeton Architectural Press.
This book discusses designing communities around public transit and walking. It is also discusses cooperation between fractured governments (like Clarke vs. Oconee)

Cervero, Robert (1998). The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry. Washington, DC, Island Press.
I call this the "bible" of how to develop truly efficient, fast, and affordable mass transit as an alternative to the automobile and sprawl.

Duany, Andres, Elizabeth. Plater.-Zyberk. Jeff. Spiveck. (2000). Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York, North Point Press.
This was the guy who spoke at our Tour de sprawl 2001 lecture. His lecture was basically this book, but the book has more detail

Durning, Allen. T. (1996). The Car and the City. Seattle, Northwest Environment Watch.
Most of the examples are from Seattle but a good short book in lay terms, very easy to grasp.

Fishman, R. (1987). Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York, Basic Books.
Critical history of suburban growth, focus on values and ideologies

Freund, P., and George Martin (1993). The Ecology of the Automobile. Montreal, Rose Press.
One of the best critiques of our car culture ever written

Goddard, S. (1994). Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century. New York, Harper Collins.
The history of why we don't have good rail transit in the US

Jackson, Kenneth. J. (1985). Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York, Oxford University Press.
A more political history of the suburbs, with strong emphasis on how suburbia was subsidized by the federal and state governments after WWII.

Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life Great American Cities. New York, Vintage.
The classic, written partly in protest to proposals to build a freeway straight through Greenwhich Village in Manahtten.

Katz, Peter., Ed. (1994). The New Urbanism: Towards an Architecture of Community. New York, McGraw-Hill.
Summarizes the ideas of NU

Kay, Jane. Holtz. (1997). Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took over America and How we can Take it Back. New York, Crown.
Another great critique of the car, one that reads very well and she is a spitfire.

Moe, Richard. and C. Wilkie (1997). Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl. New York, Henry Holt and Company.
Focuses on the value of places and neighborhood, and importance of historical preservation. Very relevant to the demise of historic Athens.

Newman, Peter and Jeff. Kenworthy. (1999). Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence, Island Press.
This is another of my favorites. Another "bible" of why total accommodation of the car is a disaster.

Sachs, Wolfgang. (1992). For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press.
Great German perspective, with a lot of philosophical aspects of culture and the car, a bit heavy on the academic side but I like it.

Sorkin, Micheal., Ed. (1992). Variations on a Theme Park: The New AMerican City and the End of Public Space. New York, Hill and Wang.
This is a great collection of essays not so much about sprawl, but about the loss of public space, and the privatization of our society, such as malls instead of town squares. Great reading!

Whitelegg, John. (1997). Critical Mass: Transport, Environment, and Society in the Twenty-First Century. London, Pluto Press.
Excellent book on the cost of driving, although more of a European perspective.