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Car sick

By Lynn Sloman

Green books ltd, UK, 2006

This book is pretty in depth so would be best for someone with some experience in pedestrian and transport related issues. If you live in Christchurch it is available from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology library.

The book covers the following subjects:

1. Our love affair with the car
2. Principles of how to de-motorise our environment.

Walk for your life: Restoring neighbourhood walkways to enhance community life, improve street safety and reduce obesity

By Marie Demers, PH.D

Foreword by James O. Hull

Vital Health Publishing 2006

What a great book! Excellent for those new to walking advocacy.

This book looks at the hostile environment that has been created through urban sprawl and car dependence. Marie’s book offers some good reading on the burden being created by our sedentary lifestyle.