Women & Bicycles Tip: Add These to Your Shelves

e6MXyK7ObZyMVaWZ7KTNlYi1U8M0BlyNV1r6XhihuwI This entry is part of our Women & Bicycles Tips series. Women & Bicycles is WABA’s outreach and encouragement initiative to build a stronger women’s bike community and get more women on bikes. These tips certainly aren’t exclusive to women, but they’re produced with and through the Women & Bicycles’ programming and staffing. Click here to learn more and get involved.   Recently, we posed this question to the WABA staff: “What books have enriched your understanding of the power of bikes and your approach to bike advocacy?” Here are some titles we heard in response. They’re a well-rounded look at planning and advocacy for the curious reader, and could make for great holiday gifts! That said, this list is in no way comprehensive. Do you have a favorite urban studies, planning, or bike-related book? Tell us on Facebook or Twitter (or leave a comment on this post). Bike-blog-Books-and-bicyc-003

Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay

City Cycling, John Pucher and Ralph Buehler

Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

Edge City, Joel Garreau

Everyday Bicycling, Elly Blue

High Cost of Free Parking, Donald Shoup

Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler

Pedaling Revolution, Jeff Mapes

Sprawl, Robert Bruegmann

Stir it up, Rinku Sen

Traffic, Tom Vanderbilt

The Third Mode, Jeff Olson

Walkable Cities, Jeff Speck

Walking Home, Ken Greenberg

Women on Wheels, April Streeter