Ways to the West
eBook - PDF

Ways to the West

How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America's Frontier

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ways to the West

How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America's Frontier

About this book

In Ways to the West, Tim Sullivan embarks on a car-less road trip through the Intermountain West, exploring how the region is taking on what may be its greatest challenge: sustainable transportation. Combining personal travel narrative, historical research, and his professional expertise in urban planning, Sullivan takes a critical yet optimistic and often humorous look at how contemporary Western cities are making themselves more hospitable to a life less centered on the personal vehicle.

The modern West was built by the automobile, but so much driving has jeopardized the West's mystic hold on the American future. At first, automobility heightened the things that made the West great, but love became dependence, and dependence became addiction. Via his travels by bicycle, bus, and train through Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Portland, Sullivan captures the modern transportation evolution taking place across the region and the resulting ways in which contemporary Western communities are reinterpreting classic American values like mobility, opportunity, adventure, and freedom.

Finding a West created, lost, and reclaimed, Ways to the West will be of great interest to anyone curious about sustainable transportation and the history, geography, and culture of the American West.


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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prologue: Selling the Truck
  4. Part I: The Future
  5. Part II: The Land
  6. Part III: Opportunity
  7. Part IV: Freedom
  8. Part V: Adventure
  9. Part VI: The New Mobility
  10. About the Author
  11. Index