Review
"Alan Durning is asking us to wake up...to get out of the car and take a good look at what is happening in our communities. Everyone who lives in a city needs to read this book." -- Steve Ransom, The Center for Appropriate Transport
"Somewhere or other you've probably heard a sound bite drawn from The Car and the City. The LA Times proclaimed, "Cities Safer than Suburbs," reporting on the book's observation that the risk of suburban traffic is actually worse than the risk of urban crime. Similar headlines ricocheted around the nation last year when the book was released. When I later read the book, I learned that The Car and the City was a much more challenging book than the headlines revealed. It's a book about issues that are near and dear to my heart: building and rebuilding our cities; creating strong, safe, equitable communities; and making the automobile a useful accessory to life but not its organizing principle." -- Former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, 8/13/97
"Somewhere or other you've probably heard a sound bite drawn from The Car and the City. The LA Times proclaimed, "Cities Safer than Suburbs," reporting on the book's observation that the risk of suburban traffic is actually worse than the risk of urban crime. Similar headlines ricocheted around the nation last year when the book was released. When I later read the book, I learned that The Car and the City was a much more challenging book than the headlines revealed. It's a book about issues that are near and dear to my heart: building and rebuilding our cities; creating strong, safe, equitable communities; and making the automobile a useful accessory to life but not its organizing principle." -- Former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, 8/13/97
From the Publisher
Number 3 in Northwest Environment Watch’s series of short, hard-hitting books on creating a sustainable society.
