Transportation infrastructure: General resources

Bell, Jonathan, Carchitecture, Birkhäuser, HE5611.C278 2001

Finizio, Gino, Architecture & mobility : tradition and innovation, Skira, NA2543.S6 F5335 2006

Grabar, Henry, Paved paradise: how parking explains the world, HE336.P37 G73 2023

Hess, Alan, Googie redux: ultramodern roadside architecture, Chronicle Books, NA7856.H47 2004

International Parking Institute

Irmscher, Ilja, Parking structures, Dom Publishers, TL175.I7613 2013

Jakle, John A., The motel in America, Johns Hopkins University Press, TX909.J35 1996 

Klanten, Robert et al., It's a gas! : the allure of the gas station, Gestalten Verlag, TL153.I87 2018

Liebs, Chester H., Main Street to Miracle Mile: American roadside architecture, Johns Hopkins University Press, NA6212.L54 1995

Lipson, Hod, Driverless : intelligent cars and the road ahead, MIT Press, TL152.8.L57 2016

Longstreth, Richard W., City center to regional mall: architecture, the automobile, and retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950, MIT Press, HF5429.5.L7L66 1997

Longstreth, Richard W., The drive-in, the supermarket, and the transformation of commercial space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941 / Richard Longstreth, MIT Press, HF5429.5. L7L663 1999

Maat, K, Built environment and car travel: analyses of interdependencies, IOS Press, 2009 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Mitchell, William J., et al., Reinventing the automobile: personal urban mobility for the 21st century, MIT Press, TL220.M58 2010 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)

"Parking structures," Prestressed Concrete Institute, 2021 (See also: Precast/prestressed concrete parking structures: recommended practice for design & construction, downloadable PDF)

Parking Today (Industry journal)

Segrave, Kerry, Drive-in Theaters: a history from their inception to 1933, McFarland & Co., PN1993.5.U6537 1992

“Service station,” Oxford Art Online, 2015

Sorkin, Michael, “The automobile and the city: urban mobility in the future can liberate the street and transform it into a truly public place,” Architectural record, April 2017, p. 64–65

Stevens, L., “Here come the robot cars: autonomous vehicles will impact the built environment,” Planning, April 2017, p. 16–21.

Sumantran, V., Faster, smarter, greener: the future of the car and urban mobility, MIT Press, HE5611.S86 2017

Uffelen, Chris van, Automobile architecture, Braun, NA8348.U44 2011

Votolato, Gregory, Car, Reaktion, TL145.V827 2015

Wells, Christopher W., Car country : an environmental history, University of Washington Press, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Willson, Richard W., Parking management for smart growth, Island Press, 2015 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Also search for … Automobile parking, Automobile sales buildings, Automobile services areas, Automobile service stations, Automobile trailers, Automobiles, Car washes, Caravans, Carports, Drive-in banks, Drive-in restaurants, Drive-in theaters, Driveways, Garages, Gas stations, Parking garages, Parking lots, Service stations, …

Association of Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals (Professional association)

Bike program, City of Los Angeles, Department of Transportation

Bike share, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority

Bonham, Jennifer & Marilyn Johnson (Editors), Cycling Futures, University of Adelaide Press, 2015 (PDFs available via Jstor)

CicLAvia (since 2010, “temporarily closes streets to car traffic and opens them to Los Angelenos to use as a public park”)

Fleming, Steven, Cycle space: architecture & urban design in the age of the bicycle, nai010 publishers, NA9053.C55 F53 2012

Hoffmann, Melody L., Bike lanes are white lanes : bicycle advocacy and urban planning, University of Nebraska Press, 2016 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Horton, Dave, et al., Cycling and society, Routledge, 2007 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Wilson, David Gordon, Bicycling science, MIT Press, TL410.W546 2004

Wray, J. Harry, Pedal power: the quiet rise of the bicycle in American public life, Paradigm Publishers, HE308 .W73 2008

"Bridges in the landscape," Daidalos, #57, 1995 (Theme issue)

“Bridges” (PDFs in Detail Inspiration)

Denison, Edward & Ian Stewart, How to read bridges: a crash course in engineering and architecture, Rizzoli, TG153 .H68 2012

Fu, Gongkang, Bridge design and evaluation: LRFD and LRFR, Wiley, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Jackson, Donald C., Great American Bridges and Dams, Wiley, TG23.J33 1988

Kawada, Tadaki, History of the modern suspension bridge, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Kranakis, Ed, Constructing a bridge: an exploration of engineering culture, design, and research in nineteenth-century France and America, MIT Press, TG340.M465 C4 1997

Marrey, Bernard, Ponts Modernes, Picard, TG71.M37 1992, volumes 1 & 2

Murray, Peter & Mary Anne Stevens, Living bridges: the inhabited bridge, past, present and future, Royal Academy of Arts, TG6.G72L665 1996

Ruddock, Ted, “Bridge,” Oxford Art Online, 2003

Bus Ride (“the go-to source for the transit bus and motorcoach industry”)

“Bus rapid transit: A public transport renaissance,” Built environment, v. 36, #3, 2010 (Theme issue)

Bus Riders Union (L.A.-based activists, part of the Labor Community Strategy Center)

National Association for Pupil Transportation

Levine, Jonathan, “Is bus versus rail investment a zero-sum game?” Journal of the American Planning Association, v. 79, no. 1, 2013, p. 5–15

Schwietermann, Joseph, “Inter-city buses rebound, with newbies leading the pack,” Praxis, #9, 2007, p. 50-51

Sigall, Jonathan, “In defense of the bus : for many cities, the future of mass transit lies in a mode often considered a thing of the past,” Planning, February 2018, p. 20–25

Swope, Christopher, “L.A. banks on buses,” Planning, May 2006, p. 32-36

Automated Material Handling Systems Association (AMHSA)

Bell, Jonathan, “Delivering the goods,” Wallpaper, November 2007, p. 164-168

Caterino, Jennifer, “Green industrial,” Architect, January 2011, p. 50-58

Cowen, Deborah, Deadly life of logistics : mapping violence in global trade, University of Minnesota Press, 2014 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Eaton, Leonard K., “Warehouse,” Oxford Art Online, 2003

Geers, Kersten, “Architecture without content,” Harvard design magazine, #43, 2016, p. 108-110

Hakim, Simon (Editor), Securing transportation systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2015 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Hillestad, Richard, et al., Fast-forward: key issues in modernizing the U.S. freight-transportation system for future economic growth, RAND Corporation, 2009 (PDFs available via Jstor)

Lahn, Andrew J., What’s the buzz? The city-scale impacts of drone delivery, RAND Corporation, 2017 (PDF available via RAND)

Logistics Management (online version of industry magazine launched in 1962)

Lyster, Clare, Learning from logistics : how networks change our cities, De Gruyter, HT153.L97 2016 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)

Material Handling Industry (MHI) (professional association, formed in 1945)

Prater, Edmund, & Kim Whitehead, An introduction to supply chain management, Business Expert Press, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Sekula, Allan & Noël Burch, The forgotten space [videorecording], WILDart FILM, HE593.F674 2012 (DVD on Media Shelf)

Calthorpe, Peter, “Weapons of mass urban destruction,” Foreign Policy, September/October 2012, p. 68–71 (PDF available via Jstor)

DiMento, Joseph F. C., & Cliff Ellis, Changing lanes - visions and histories of urban freeways, MIT Press, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Easterling, Keller, Organization space: landscapes, highways, and houses in America, MIT Press, NA9053.S6E18 1999

Federal Highways Administration

Lewis, Tom, Divided highways : building the interstate highways, transforming American life, Cornell University Press, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Mitchell, Daniel J. B., “Earl Warren's fight for California's freeways: setting a path for the nation,” Southern California Quarterly, v. 88, #2, 2006, p. 205–238 (PDF available via Jstor)

Rose, Mark H., & Raymond A. Mohl. Interstate : highway politics and policy since 1939, University of Tennessee Press, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Cervero R., “Mobility niches: jitneys to robo-taxis,” Journal of the American Planning Association, v. 83, #4, 2017, p. 404-412

Have a go (“We aim to help you move away from archaic cars, towards nimble, green, and fun little electric vehicles!”)

CoMotion LA, perspectives, webinars, and podcasts (“The global laboratory of future mobility”)

Schneider, Benjamin, “Why little vehicles will conquer the city,” CityLab (MIT), June 21, 2018

Also search for … E-bikes, E-scooters, Hoverboards, Motorized skateboards, Velomobiles, ….

The bike share planning guide, Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, 2018

Car-share programs, Los Angeles Metro

Madrigal, Alexis C., “A long-term solution for scooter sharing,” The Atlantic, October 15, 2018

Marshall, Aarian, “Turns out Uber and Lyft might not be ruining the American city,” Wired, January 31, 2018

National Aging & Disability Transportation Center (Federal Transit Administration program)

Nyren, Ron, “Rethinking mobility: ten tools and strategies provide possibilities for reducing the world’s dependence on privately owned cars,” Urban Land, March 2008, p. 46–50

Shared Use Mobility Center (Advocacy group providing research and services to support planning & implementation)

Also search for … Bicycle sharing, Car sharing, Docks, Door-to-door transportation, Taxi stands, Taxicabs, Limousines, Paratransit, Ride-hailing, Ridesharing, Shared mobility, Scooter-sharing, ….

Amato, Joseph, On foot : a history of walking, New York University Press, 2004 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Association of Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals (Professional association)

Buck-Morss, Susan, “The Flaneur, the sandwichman and the whore: the politics of loitering,” New German Critique, #39, 1986, p. 99–140 (PDF available via Jstor)

Debord, Guy, “Theory of the dérive,” Internationale Situationniste, #2, 1958 (available via Situationist International Online)

Ewing, Reid H., Pedestrian & transit oriented design, Urban Land Institute, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Hessel, Franz, Walking in Berlin : a flaneur in the capital; with an essay by Walter Benjamin, MIT Press, DD879 .H4713 2017

Lauster, Martina, “Walter Benjamin's myth of the ‘Flâneur,’” The Modern Language Review, v. 102, #1, 2007, p. 139–156 (PDF available via Jstor)

Le Corbusier, "Death of the Street," in Radiant City, NA9030.J4213 (Part 4, Section 6)

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, & Renia Ehrenfeucht, Sidewalks : conflict and negotiation over public space, MIT Press, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

"Skyways," Design Quarterly, #129, 1985 (Theme issue; PDFs available via Jstor)

Ulin, David L., Sidewalking : coming to terms with Los Angeles, University of California Press, F869.L875 A27 2015 (ebook is also available via Ebook Central)

Dilts, James D., The world the trains made : a century of great railroad architecture in the United States and Canada, ForeEdge, University Press of New England, NA6311 .D58 2018

Grant, H. Roger, Railroads and the American people, Indiana University Press, 2012, (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History

Krings, Ulrich, "Railway station," Oxford Art Online, 2003

Light Rail Transit Association

Musicant, Marlyn (Editor), Los Angeles Union Station, Getty Research Institute, NA6313.L67L67 2014

Parissen, Steven, Station to station, Phaidon Press, NA6310.P375 1997

Pevsner, Nikolaus, A History of building types, NA4170.P48 1976 (Chapter 14, "Railway stations")

Railroad Station Historical Society

Revill, George, Railway, Reaktion Books, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Warren, Roxanne, Rail and the city : shrinking our carbon footprint while reimagining urban space, MIT Press, 2014 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Wolmar, Christian, Blood, iron, and gold : how the railways transformed the world, PublicAffairs, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Also search for … Railroad bridges, Railroad cars, Railroad stations, Railroad terminals, Railroad tunnels, Railroad yards, Railroads, Tram depots, …

Anderson, Stanford (Editor), On streets, MIT Press, HE331.O5

Appleyard, Donald & Kevin Lynch, A View from the Road, MIT Press, TE175.A63 1964 (Library office)

Dover, Victor, & John Massengale, Street design : the secret to great cities and towns, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Jacobs, Allan B., The boulevard book : history, evolution, design of multiway boulevards, MIT Press, TE279.J33 2002

Jacobs, Jane, The death and life of great American cities, NA9108.J3 1961

Laitinen, Riitta & Thomas Cohen, Cultural history of early modern European streets,  Brill, 2008 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Marshall, Stephen, Streets and patterns : the structure of urban geometry, Routledge, 2004 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Sennett, Richard, Flesh and stone: the body and the city in Western civilization, W. W. Norton, HT113.S45 1994 (Chapter 8, "Arteries and Veins")

Southworth, Michael, Streets and the shaping of towns and cities, Island Press, 2003 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Suisman, Douglas R., Los Angeles boulevard : eight x-rays of the body public, Oro Editions, HE356.5.L7S8 2014

Vitruvius, The ten books on architecture, NA2515.V6135 1999 (Book 1, Chapter 6, "The Direction of the streets")

Zhang, Lei, & David Levinson, “A model of the rise and fall of roads,” Journal of Transport and Land Use, v. 10, #1, 2017, p. 337–356 (PDF available via Jstor)

Also search for … Avenues, Causeways, Paths, Pedestrian bridges, Pedestrian facilities, Pedestrian streets, Pedestrian tunnels, Raised pedestrian walkways, Roads, Roadside improvement, Roadside rest areas, Roadsides, Sidewalks, Street furniture, Streets, Streetscapes, Traffic circles, Traffic islands, Traffic regulation, Traffic signals, …

Bobrick, Benson, Labyrinths of iron: history of the world's subways, Newsweek Books, TF845.B6

Constantine, Helen (Editor), Paris Metro tales, Oxford University Press, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Darroch, Nathan, “A brief introduction to London's underground railways and land use,” Journal of Transport and Land Use, v. 7, #1, 2014, p. 105–116 (PDF available via Jstor)

Final environmental impact statement : Los Angeles rail rapid transit project, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, HE310 .L68G89 1983

Graphics standards manual, New York City Transit Authority, NC1002.S54G73 2015

Kuzneëtìsov, Sergey, Hidden urbanism : architecture and design of the Moscow metro, 1935-2015, Dom Publishers, TF302.M67 K89 2016

Ström, Marianne, “Metro station,” Oxford Art Online, 2003

Welsh, David (Editor), Underground writing : the London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf, Liverpool University Press, 2010 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Arndt, Wulf-Holger (Editor), Mobility and transportation : concepts for sustainable transportation in future megacities, Jovis, HE305.M635 2014

Boenau, Andy, Emerging trends in transportation planning, Momentum Press, 2016 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Bunting, P.M., Making public transport work, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Meyer, Michael D., Transportation planning handbook, 4^th edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2016 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

A new infrastructure : innovative transit solutions for Los Angeles : results of an open ideas competition, Southern California Institute of Architecture, NA 2440.L67S688 2009

Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI, of the American Society of Civil Engineers)

“Trip generation,” Journal of transport and land use, v. 8, #1, 2015 (Theme issue; PDFs available via Jstor)

Tumlin, Jeffrey, Sustainable transportation planning, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

“What will the future transportation and city be like? Space magazine, #594, May 2017 (Theme issue)

International Tunneling & Underground Space Association

Jackson, Robert W., Highway under the Hudson : a history of the Holland Tunnel, New York University Press, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Jupp, Edmund W., Tunnel watching, Intellect Books, 2003 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Ray, Rosalie, “Open for business? Effects of Los Angeles Metro Rail construction on adjacent businesses,” Journal of Transport and Land Use, v. 10, #1, 2017, p. 725–742 (PDF available via Jstor)

“Specialist know-how: The Boßler Tunnel,” Detail, February 2017 (PDF available via Detail Inspiration)

Tunnelbuilder (Professional journal “Promoting the world’s tunnelling industry to a huge qualified audience”)

Charles, Victoria, Lighthouses, Parkstone International, 2015 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Chew, Ek Peng & Loon Ching Tang (Editors), Advances in maritime logistics and supply chain systems, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2014 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Edgerton, Michael, Practitioner's guide to effective maritime and port security, Wiley, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Gastil, Raymond W., New York waterfront: reconstruction and renewal, Princeton Architectural Press, NA9053 .W38G37 2002

Leggate, Heather (Editor), International maritime transport : perspectives, Routledge, 2004 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Molland, Anthony F., The maritime engineering reference book : a guide to ship design, construction and operation, Elsevier, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Sekula, Allan, Okeanos, Sternberg Press, TR647.S45 2017

Sharpsteen, Bill, The docks, University of California Press, 2010 (On the Port of Los Angeles; ebook available via Ebook Central)

Talley, Wayne K., The Blackwell companion to maritime economics, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Task, Committee on Marinas 2020, Planning and design guidelines for small craft harbors, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Tupper, E. C., Introduction to naval architecture, Elsevier, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)

Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, NA2515.V6135 1999 (Book 5, Chapter 12, on harbors, breakwaters & shipyards)

Also search for … Canals, Ferries, Harbors, Lighthouses, Marinas, Marine terminals, Piers, Ports, ….