Resources

This book (and website) explains in detail many of the negative effects on urban life of an automobile-based transportation system, and provides a delightful vision of an alternative urban layout based on public transportation.
This report from the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) and the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) documents the rising cost of transportation and its affects on U.S. households.
The Healthy Transportation Network assists California's local officials in creating more walkable and bicycle-friendly communities.
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition is a membership based advocacy organization working to improve the bicycling environment and quality of life in Los Angeles County.
This book (and website) explains the correlation between the speed of traffic on neighborhood streets and the psychological retreat motorists have made from the environment.  It identifies a major city problem as fundamentally social and offers innovatively refreshing solutions.
A national organization working to promote a diversified transportation system along with transportation oriented development.
VTPI is an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical solutions to transportation problems.