Other Car-free Resources on the Web

There are many individuals and groups around the world fighting the reign of car culture. These are some of the resources that are just a click away:

• My diary of living without a car in 2005 can be found in Carfree 2005.
• A great site about "Life After, Before, Without, and Despite Cars" is to be found on De Clarke's Transportation Alternative Pages.
• Make your city a Carfree City.
• Transit and walking advocates in the Twin Cities join forces in Transit for Livable Communities.
• Read about efforts to depave Chicago's Lakeshore Drive, and other de-paving efforts, at The Campaign for a Free and Clear Lakefront..
• Bike Winter is a midwest site about bicycling thru the midwest USA's snowy winters.
• Roadkill Bill is a carfree comic strip with some of the most common sense anti-car arguments you will find.
• Detour Publications is a non-profit, on-line source for over 175 books and multi-media resources focusing on sustainable transportation and urban ecology. Check out their list of carfree related books.
• A carfree site from Los Angeles, with a great deal of information about transportation alternatives is at ihatedriving.com.
• The Journal of World Transport and Policy is an international journal on transportation policy.
• Autofrei Leben is a German carfree site.
• One stop shopping for information on alternatives to the automobile and other related topics such as the New Urbanism, can be found at The Transportation and Development Page at Preservenet
• Perils for Pedestrians is a public access cable show on pedestrian issues. Catch it in Minneapolis on Wednesday nights at 8:30 on Channel 17.
• The folks at Adbusters have a great anti-automobile commercial, Hunt the Autosaurus.
• Car Busters is the publication of a strong European car-busting movement.
• A British site is the home page for Roadpeace. It's kind of their version of MADD, but here the emphasis is on changing peoples' driving, rather than drinking, behavior.
• Read about other carfree and car-hater experiences, as well as find other related links in the Car Haters page.
• Some wonderful web pages from the Netherlands with plans for carfree cities and great statistics on the wastefulness of car culture:
  • Carfree City Society
  • Cities for People, Not for Cars
• Why live carfree? Read all about it in the Sierra Club's electronic brochure, Choosing Urban Life, part of their anti-sprawl campaign.
• The author of the classic book, The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler, has an excellent site.
• "Carfree cities... are inevitable," says the author of this article in Florida's E-Design Online, but that day is going to come as a big surprise to the United States.
• One of the world's most beloved carfree cities is Venice.