Best Car Free Info/Links

[carless]

Please share your best car free links:
Philosophy/

Jane Holtz Kay, an author, journalist and architecture critic for The Nation, has written widely on the built and natural environment. Her books include Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back, Preserving New England and Lost Boston.
http://www.janeholtzkay.com/index.html

Do you truly need a car to bring home a bag of potting soil? Or a length of carpet? Or your child?
An individualized website w/ a small focus on Portland. Be sure to check out Bike Schlepping!
http://yourbodypower.org./

NYC Political
http://www.cars-suck.org/

James Howard Kunstler
Author of The Geography of Nowhere. There are several threads on BF
http://www.kunstler.com/index.html

Macro-petrochemical-war, deeeeeeep stuff/ no fluff w/ Jan Lundberg
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php

New Urbanism/ Neighborhood focus:
"Rule out any project that is gated, that lacks sidewalks, or that have a tree-like street system, rather than a grid network. The project as a whole should connect well with surrounding neighborhoods, developments, or towns, while also protecting regional open space."

Here is a page of interesting links, I don't have time to peruse now.
Comments? I am doing the Amazon thing again soon, I need the books mentioned in BF- Thanks everyone.

[thomj513]

Thanks Carless, that's some great info. I usually check-out the culturechange.org site and get the e-mail notices. I'll have to look through my list of favorites in this area and see what I can ad. I'm really trying to find some active sites for the Los Angeles, Ca. area; kind of odd since it's one of the most car-centric areas in the country.

[TexasGuy]

Thanks Carless, that's some great info. I usually check-out the culturechange.org site and get the e-mail notices. I'll have to look through my list of favorites in this area and see what I can ad. I'm really trying to find some active sites for the Los Angeles, Ca. area; kind of odd since it's one of the most car-centric areas in the country.
Now thats an area that could probably use a 10% sway of car drivers to cyclists :p

[Rodney Crater]

Don't forget that you can do an interloan at your local US library and it is ( should be ) free except for interloaning from Alaska and possibly Hawaii. For those of you who don't know what an interloan is, you can have your local library send out a request to other libraries throughout the nation for books your library does not have on hand.

You bibliophiles might want to check out www.bookcrossing.com

[Dahon.Steve]

http://www.carfree.com/cft/index.html

I like this site because it's a free magazine the advocates a carfree lifstyle

http://www.lightrailnow.org/

More than anything else, lightrail made me carfree for life. I always like to keep up to date and new lightrail development and it's a pleasure to see all the new lines opening in the U.S. each year. All you have to do is find one in a city close to where you live, move next to a station (witin a mile) and find a job on another other station or the end of the line. You're now car free.

http://www.newcolonist.com/vox/vox.html

I like this site because the authors are urban advocates and write about important issues.

http://www.runmuki.com/commute/

Let's not forget the person who started in bike commuting in the first place, Paul Dorn.