Review
Carless in Chicago is a terrific resource and a powerful argument to ditch your car and get out on foot, bike, or public transit. Breezy in tone and full of savory bites of information,
Carless provides snappy descriptions of what you'll find in neighborhoods all over Chicago. Rothstein provides sound advice without sounding priggish. This is a perfect book for these times. I m outta here!! --Debra Shore, Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, who takes the Yellow and Red Lines to work whenever she can...
The very timely
Carless in Chicago offers practical not preachy up-to-date advice about getting along, even thriving, in the Windy City without owning a car. Rothstein coolly lays out some real benefits of selling your car: more cash and better health; more free time and less stress; a cleaner environment and a more human-scale city. The sound and sensible points do not call for sacrifice or suffering, and are convincing, especially considering that they come from a self-confessed car-lover. This book that will change the way you think about cars. It might even change your life. --Greg Borzo, author of
The Chicago LCarless in Chicago is a terrific resource and a powerful argument to ditch your car and get out on foot, bike, or public transit. Breezy in tone and full of savory bites of information,
Carless provides snappy descriptions of what you'll find in neighborhoods all over Chicago. Rothstein provides sound advice without sounding priggish. This is a perfect book for these times. I m outta here!! --Debra Shore, Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, who takes the Yellow and Red Lines to work whenever she can...
The very timely
Carless in Chicago offers practical not preachy up-to-date advice about getting along, even thriving, in the Windy City without owning a car. Rothstein coolly lays out some real benefits of selling your car: more cash and better health; more free time and less stress; a cleaner environment and a more human-scale city. The sound and sensible points do not call for sacrifice or suffering, and are convincing, especially considering that they come from a self-confessed car-lover. This book that will change the way you think about cars. It might even change your life. --Greg Borzo, author of
The Chicago L
About the Author
About recovering autoholic Jason Rothstein: A native Chicagoan,
Jason Rothstein first started to realize how much of a drain on resources his car had become in 2005, but it took him more than a year of soul searching to finally cut the cord. For a person who doesn't make his living as a writer, Jason certainly has a lot of credits to his name. Prior to developing his obsession with the non-automotive aspects of Chicago, Jason explored the city and other topics in articles for ATA's
Journey magazine; through contributions to two of Margaret Littman's Chicago guidebooks,
The Dog Lover's Companion to Chicago, and
VegOut! Vegetarian Guide to Chicago; and in opinion pieces for
Catalyst Chicago and
e-Prairie. Jason currently works full time at the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where the pro-pedestrian messages come fast and furious. He holds a BA in psychology from Antioch College and expects to receive his Masters Degree in Public Health with a concentration in policy in 2009.
