Your transit and street safety dreams are within your reach. While challenging our dangerous car-centric systems can feel daunting, you can win, and this book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight,...
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216 pages
6 x 9
Black-and-white photos and illustrations.
Three Generations and the Death of the Family Dairy Farm
When Ryan Dennis’s father was crushed by heavy machinery on their New York dairy farm, both men accepted the accident as a risk of agricultural life. But it was harder to comprehend being crushed by low milk prices, big banks, and the...
264 pages
6 x 9
Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit
While prominent buildings like Notre Dame in Paris rise from the ashes, historic buildings in disinvested communities are lost at an alarming rate. The resulting holes in the fabric of the community are not only a loss of structures, but of the...
288 pages
8 x 9
Illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.
How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World
Squirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our backyard gardens and birdfeeders never fail to exasperate. But squirrels are more than amusing...
264 pages
6 x 9
18 Black-and-white illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.
Igniting the City-Building Revolution
Consider your surroundings. Maybe you’re in a house or in an apartment building. Maybe you’re at a desk in an office building, or in a café looking out on a lively main street. The urban landscape is not simply the backdrop to...
320 pages
6 x 9
Black-and-white illustrations.
An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West
With their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a vast area from Santa Fe to the Sierras, more...
176 pages
6 x 9
Illustrations.
Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life
Free-flowing rivers in the United States are an endangered species. With more than 500,000 dams in place, we’ve dammed and diverted almost every major river, straightening curves and blocking passage for fish and other aquatic animals,...
264 pages
6 x 9
4 Black-and-white maps.
The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit
In the nineteenth century, Manhattan’s streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube...
288 pages
6 x 9
Illustrations and photos.
Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit
Featured on NPR's Living on EarthForeword Reviews' Book of the Day Food Tank's Fall Reading Recommendation “A deeply meditative book in the vein of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.”...
256 pages
6 x 9
Photographs.