The Journalists' Guide to the American Dream

Automobility

Congestion

Housing

Land Use

Open Space

Pollution

Smart-Growth Disasters

Transit

Smart-Growth Disaster References

Portland

The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths, a book available from the Thoreau Institute for $14.95 (plus $4 shipping), examines the Portland story in detail. Portions of an earlier version of this book can be read on line. More analyses of the Portland plans can be found at the Public Purpose and Demographia web sites, both of which are maintained by Wendell Cox.

San Jose

The information in this guide is based on a more detailed case-study of the San Jose urban-growth boundary and light-rail system that was published by the Reason Foundation.

Cincinnati

OKI's Regional Transportation Plan includes a financial chapter that shows how planners wanted to spend more than $2 billion on light-rail transit and an environmental justice analysis that showed that its plan would reduce low-income and minority accessibility to the region's jobs.