Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives

“This book will—no question—make you think in new ways. Why have we surrendered our cities to cars? What might it be like to inhabit a space designed for people instead? It’s exciting and hopeful—this we can do!”
—Bill McKibben, author of The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon

Almost everywhere in the world, streets are designed for travel at the highest speed, giving precedence to the chunkiest vehicles. We take for granted that the streets outside of our homes are designed only for move...