| Ways to the West: How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America''s Frontier Subjects: Transportation Automotive -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.); Transportation Automotive -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.); Cities and towns -- West (U.S.); Sustainable development -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; 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. Tim Sullivan is a city planner, urban designer, and writer whose professional focus is the reshaping of cities and communities through alternative transportation planning. He is the author of No Communication with the Sea: Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and two children. |