When driving is not an option : steering away from car dependency / Anna Letitia Zivarts ; foreword by Dani Simons
- Author
- Zivarts, Anna Letitia
- Published
- Washington, DC : Island Press, [2024]
- Copyright Date
- ©2024
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Simons, Dani
- Contents
- Introduction. Despite what you think, not everyone drives -- Chapter 1. Nondrivers are everywhere -- Chapter 2. What nondrivers need -- Chapter 3. Nondrivers need what everyone needs: here's how we get it -- Chapter 4. Valuing the expertise of nondrivers -- Conclusion -- Epilogue. What you can do right now.
- Summary
- "Disability advocate Anna Letitia Zivarts shines a light on the number of people in the US who cannot drive and explains how improving our transportation system with nondrivers in mind will create a better quality of life for everyone. Drawing from interviews with involuntary nondrivers from around the US and from her own experience, Zivarts explains how nondrivers get around and the changes necessary to make our communities more accessible. These changes include improving sidewalk connectivity; providing reliable and affordable transit and paratransit; creating more options for biking, scooting, and wheeling; building more affordable and accessible housing; and the understanding the unrecognized burden of asking and paying for rides. Zivarts shows that it is critical to include people who can't drive in transportation planning decisions. She outlines steps that organizations can take to include and promote leadership of those who are most impacted--and too often excluded--by transportation systems designed by and run by people who can drive. The book ends with a checklist of actions that you, as an individual living in a car-dependent society, can take in your own life to help all of us move beyond automobility"--
- Subject(s)
- Transportation—United States—Passenger traffic
- Automobiles—Social aspects—United States
- People with disabilities—Transportation—United States
- Older people—Transportation—United States
- Urban policy—United States
- Transport de voyageurs—États-Unis
- Automobiles—Aspect social—États-Unis
- Personnes handicapées—Transport—États-Unis
- Politique urbaine—États-Unis
- ISBN
- 9781642833157 (paperback)
1642833150 (paperback) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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