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  1. Automotive Industries Association of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Banning Cars from Manhattan
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  3. 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.
  4. Car Care Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  6. 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.
  7. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. How Things Don't Work
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  11. How to Get Along With Your Car
    Resource Type: Book
  12. How to Get More Miles per Gallon in the 1990s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  13. How to Get More Miles Per Gallon in the 1990s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  14. Just Another Car Factory?
    Lean Production and Its Discontents

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  15. 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).
  16. The Life of the Automobile
    Resource Type: Book
  17. Made in America
    An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  18. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  19. Ontario Distracted Driving Legislation
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  20. Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  21. 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.
  22. Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  23. 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.
  24. Transport Policy and the Environment
    Six Case Studies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  25. Understanding Media
    The Extensions of Man

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
  26. 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.
  27. What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  28. World of Wheels magazine celebrates 25 years
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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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