Pick up any of these staff-approved books, ranging from the fun and casual to the dense and wonky, to learn more about getting around and multi-modal cities.
Read local: Find a copy in downtown from the Tacoma Public Library, King’s Books, or the University Bookstore.
For adults:
- Walkable City by Jeff Speck
- Happy City by Charles Montgomery
- Sustainable Transportation Planning by Jeffery Tumlin
- Walking Home by Ken Greenberg
- Joyride by Mia Burk
- Bikenomics by Elly Blue
- Just Ride by Grant Petersen
- Cycle Chic by Mikael Colville-Andersen
- On Bicycles by Amy Walker, editor
- Making Transit Fun by Darrin Nordahl
- Better Buses Better Cities by Steven Higashide
- The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
- Bike Lane are White Lanes by Melody Hoffmann
- Bicycle / Race by Adonia E. Lugo
- Streetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan
- Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths by Angie Schmitt
For young readers:
Livable Cities
- The Busiest Street in Town by Mara Rockliff
Walking
- The Listening Walk by Paul Showers
- I Went Walking by Sue Williams
- I Took the Moon for a Walk by Carolyn Curtis
- This is the Way We Go to School: A Book about Children Around the World by Edith Baer
- Walk the Wild Road by Nigel Hinton
Biking
- Crunch by Leslie Connor
- Bear’s Bicycle by Emilie Warren McLeod
- Dino Bikes by Eva Montanari
- Sally Jean the Bicycle Queen by Cari Best
- Ugh by Arthur Yorinks
- Yuki’s Ride Home by Manya Tessler
- Supergrandpa by David M. Schwartz
- The White Bicycle by Beverly Brenna
- Rosaura en Bicicleta by Daniel Barbot
- Summer Wheels by Eve Bunting
- The Bicycle Man by Allen Say
- Go Fly a Bike by Bill Haduch
- Wheels of Change by Sue Macy
- Everyone Can Learn How to Ride a Bicycle by Chris Raschka
- Tillie the Terrible Swede by Sue Stauffacher
- Bear on a Bike by Stella Blackstone
Transit
- Bus Stops by Taro Gomi
- The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zolinsky
- Maisy Drives the Bus by Lucy Cousins
- My Bus by Byron Barton
- Busy Bus by Felicity Brooks
- Trains by Byron Barton
- Subway by Christoph Nieman
- The Subway Sparrow by Leyla Torres
- Subway Story by Julia Sarcone-Roach
