• Arlington (Mass.). Dept. of Planning and Community Development, "Comments by the town of Arlington on the Draft environmental impact statement, Red Line extension Harvard Square to Arlington Heights", Published: The Dept., 1977 In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington History of the extension of Red Line service in the 1970’s, with the eventual decision that Arlington would go without service at that time.
• Bedford Sidewalk Study Committee, "Final report of the Bedford Sidewalk Study Committee", 1975 Subject: Sidewalks. Bedford (Mass.) In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network
• Benson Bobrick, "Labyrinths of iron, a history of the world's subways", New York: Newsweek Books, 1981. Subject: Subways --History. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Benson Bobrick, "Labyrinths of iron: subways in history, myth, art, technology, and war", Published: New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1994. Subject: Subways --History. In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network
• Roberto Brambilla and Gianni Longo; with a foreword by Bernard Rudofsky, "For pedestrians only: planning, design, and management of traffic-free zones", Published: New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1977. Subject: Pedestrian facilities design. In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network
• Roberto Brambilla and Gianni Longo, The Rediscovery of the Pedestrian: 12 European Cities, Institute for Environmental Action & Columbia University Center for Advanced Research in Urban and Environmental Affairs, circa 1977.
• Steve Burrington and Veronika Theibach, "Take Back Your Streets", Conservation Law Foundation, Boston, May 1995.
• Cambridge Systematics and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority "Northwest corridor service study: final report" Published: [Cambridge, Mass.]: Cambridge Systematics, [1985] Prepared for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in cooperation with the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington Study of transit service.
• Bradley H. Clarke and Osmond Richard Cummings, "Tremont street subway: a century of public service", Published: Boston, Mass.: Boston Street Railway Association, 1997. Subject: Subways --Massachusetts --Boston --History. Street-railroads --Massachusetts --Boston --History. Series: Bulletin (Boston Street Railway Association); no. 22 In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network
• Conservation Law Foundation, "City Routes; City Rights: Building Livable Neighborhoods and Environmental Justice by Fixing Transportation", Conservation Law Foundation, Boston, 1998.
• Stephanie Coontz, "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap", New York, BasicBooks, 1992. Wonderfully readable book that deflates American cultural and historic myths, including individualism, family privacy, self reliance, consumerism and the failure of parenting. A dose of reality concerning American cities, suburbs, houses and households.
• Ruth Swartz Cowan, "More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave", New York, Basic Books, 1983. Social history of American houses and household technology. Points out that most "labor saving devices" and "increases in standard of living", including large single family houses in car-only suburbs, served to create more work and more elaborate work for women.
• De Leuw, Cather and Company, "Arlington Center Transportation Advisory Group: Meeting minutes" , Published: [s.n.], 1975 In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington History of the extension of Red Line service in the 1970’s, with the eventual decision that Arlington would go without subway service at that time.
• De Leuw, Cather and Company, "Porter Square Transportation Advisory Group: Meeting minutes", Published: [s.n.], 1975 In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• De Leuw, Cather and Company, "Red Line (Northwest) Working Committee Meeting minutes", Published: [s.n.], 1975 In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Jay Farbstein and Richard Wener, "Rebuilding communities: re-creating urban excellence: 1993 Rudy Bruner Award for Excellence in the Urban Environment", Published: New York, N.Y.: Bruner Foundation, 1993. Subject: City and town life --United States --Evaluation, City planning --Awards, Rudy Bruner Award for Excellence in the Urban Environment. In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network
• Robert Fishman, "Bourgeois Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia", New York, Basic Books, 1987. Social history of the cultural construct that car-only suburbs, nuclear families and single family houses are virtuous and wholesome. Tracks the earliest English suburbs of the 1700's, the English and North American Evangelical and Victorian cults of domesticity and the more urban choices made in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
• Mayer Hillman, J. Adams and J. Whiteleg, "One False Move: A Study of Children’s Independent Mobility", Policy Studies Institute, London, 1990.
• Mayer Hillman, "Children, Transport and the Quality of Life"
• Mayer Hillman, "Transport Policy and Children", paper presented at The Future of Transport in Cities Conference, Edinburgh, 1995.
• Kenneth T. Jackson, "Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States", Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1985. Political and economic history of street car suburbs and car-only suburbs in the US. Details the historical and ongoing race sorting, land speculation and funding of suburbs with tax money from the cities.
• Allan B. Jacobs, "Great streets", Published: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993. Subject: Streets --Design. Architecture --Human factors. Urban beautification. Pedestrian areas. City planning. In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network
• Jane Jacobs; with a new foreword by the author, "The death and life of great American cities", Published: New York: Modern Library, 1993. In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network Jane Jacobs is the grandmother of neighborhood based, walking based city planning. She is a classic and so are her books. Compelling description of how to nurture or destroy safe, lively, walking based street life.
• Jane Holtz Kay, "Asphalt nation: how the automobile took over America, and how we can take it back", New York: Crown Publishers, 1997. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington Informative look at car-only cities and more sustainable alternatives by a Boston pedestrian advocate.
• Jane Holtz Kay, "Lost Boston" , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Subject: Architecture --Mutilation, defacement, etc. --Massachusetts --Boston. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Anne Vernez Moudon, "Public Streets for Public Use", Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1987.
• National Park Service Rivers and Trails, WalkBoston, Vanasse, Hangen and Brustlin, "Safe Routes to School: A Pilot Study, Arlington, Massachusetts", 1999. Report on a study of walking and bicycling among Arlington grade school and high school students with recommendations on making children safer while traveling to school.
• Pedestrian Federation of America, "Walk Tall: A Citizen’s Guide to Walkable Communities", Rodale Press, Emmau, PA, 1995
• Roxanne Reddington-Wilde and Rachael M. Stark, Roots in the Earth: Environmental Values for Children", Boston, Ecospirit New England, 1993. Environmental values, justice, philosophy and activism for children. Helps kids articulate and act on values in terms of food, justice, consumption and ritual.
• Richard Register, "Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future", Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, 1987. Practical and inspiring ideas to decrease sprawl and use existing resources to make Berkeley, or any city, more livable, pedestrian accessible, human scale, socially just and environmentally sound.
• Rachael M. Stark, "Roots of the Soul: Living Environmental Values", Boston, Ecospirit New England, 1990. Thought provoking adult environmental values education curriculum that encourages people to question all wasteful and consumptive behaviors and beliefs and create environmentally sound ones.
• Rachael M. Stark, Brian Reddington-Wilde and Robert Murphy, "The Green Sanctuary Handbook: Guidelines for Environmentally Sound Religious Buildings and Grounds", Boston, Ecospirit New England, 1991. Useful guide for religious buildings and communities or any building or group. Suggestions on pedestrian accessibility, sustainable transport, access by proximity, environmental justice, efficient resource use and values change.
• Transport 2000 Trust, "A Safer Journey to School: A Guide to School Travel Plans for Parents, Teachers and Governors", London, 1999 Available from DfEE Publications, PO Box 5050, Annesley, Nottingham, England, NG15 0DJ
• WalkBoston 156 Milk Street, Boston, MA, 02109, (617) 451-1570, walkbos@shore.net. Web site at http://walkboston.org/. Extremely effective pedestrian advocacy group. WalkBoston promotes walking for transportation and recreation. Their mission is to create and preserve walkable, livable communities through education and advocacy.
• WalkBoston, "Community Walking Resource Guide", WalkBoston, Boston, 1996. Available from WalkBoston, 156 Milk Street, Boston, MA, 02109, (617) 451-1570, walkbos@shore.net. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• WalkBoston, "Improving Pedestrian Access to Transit: An Advocacy Handbook", WalkBoston, Boston, 1998. Available from WalkBoston, 156 Milk Street, Boston, MA, 02109, (617) 451-1570, walkbos@shore.net. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Stephen Wheeler, editor, "The Urban Ecologist: The Journal of Urban Ecology", 405 14th Street #701, Oakland, CA, 94612, (510)549-1724, $30 membership and subscription, quarterly journal. Web site at http://www.urbanecology.org/ Lively publication and organization dedicated to inspiring and documenting the philosophy and implementation of eco-cities, including articles on pedestrian and other transportation issues.
• William Hollingsworth Whyte, "City: rediscovering the center", Published: New York: Doubleday, 1988. Subject: Cities and towns, City and town life, City planning, Sociology, Urban In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• William Hollingsworth Whyte, "The social life of small urban spaces", Published: Washington, D.C.: Conservation Foundation, 1980. Subject: Pedestrian areas --Social aspects --United States, Public spaces --United States, Open spaces --Social aspects --United States. In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network

Walking Tours - City Walks, Country Walks, Nature Walks, Walking Historical Tours, Walking Architectural Tours, Transportation Walking

• Arlington Historical Society, 7 Jason Street, Arlington, MA, (781) 648-4300 Excellent resource for information on historical buildings and sites in Arlington. Offers walking tours, lectures and historical building tours.
• Association for Public Transportation, "Car Free in Boston", Boston, 1995. The 9th edition of this useful volume.
• Boston By Foot & Boston By Little Feet, 77 N. Washington Street, Boston, MA., (617) 367-2345. Web site at http://www.bostonbyfoot.com/ Walking tours of Colonial Boston, Victorian Boston, Underground Boston and other historical, topical and architectural tours on foot for children and adults in downtown Boston and Back Bay
• Richard E. Erickson, tour director, "Patriot Tours", 42 Quincy Street, Arlington, Massachusetts, (781) 648-4207 Walking tours of Colonial Arlington and other New England cities and towns of interest.
• Alan Fisher, "AMC guide to country walks near Boston within reach by public transportation" Boston, Mass.: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1986. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington An excellent guide to country walks that can be reached without a car. Detailed bus, subway and commuter rail directions.
• The Freedom Trail, contact Freedom Trail Foundation, 3 School Street, Boston, MA, (617) 227-8800 or "follow the red line in the sidewalk". Arguably the most famous walking tour in America and among the most famous in the world. A great self guided tour of dozens of buildings and historical sites important to the American Revolution. Follow the red line on the sidewalk around Downtown Boston, Charlestown and the North End.
• John McKinney, "Great walks of North America, New England", Published: New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Subject: Walking --New England --Guidebooks. Hiking --New England --Guidebooks. New England --Guidebooks. Series: Owl Books great walks series In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Adela Klapper McLaughlin, "Walking the Open Spaces of Arlington, Massachusetts", Arlington Conservation Commission, 1994 - available at Jefferson Cutter House in Arlington Center Jefferson Cutter House, 1 Whittemore Park, Arlington, MA (781) 641-0595 Amazingly complete description of small and mid-sized parks, wet lands and other open spaces in Arlington.
• Steven M. Newman, "Worldwalk", Published: New York: Morrow, 1989. Subject: Newman, Steven M. --Journeys. Voyages around the world. Walking In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• William G. Scheller, "More country walks near Boston", Published: Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1984. Subject: Walking. Nature trails --Massachusetts --Boston. Hiking --Massachusetts --Boston. Boston (Mass.) --Guidebooks In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network More country walks accessible by public transportation.
• Irene V. Scheusted, "Savoring New England Car Free: Daytrips from Boston by Public Transportation", Peaks Island, Maine, 1996.
• Lee Sinai, "Exploring in and around Boston on bike and foot", Published: Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 1996. Subject: Guidebooks. Walking --Massachusetts --Boston --Guidebooks. Bicycle touring --Massachusetts --Boston --Guidebooks. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Henry Herbert Symonds, "Walking in the Lake district"; with 20 illustrations, Published: New York: The Macmillan company, [1933] Subject: Lake District (England) Walking. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• WalkBoston, "Shawmut Peninsula Walk: Tracing Boston’s Original Shoreline" , Boston, 1999. Available in local bookstores and from WalkBoston, 156 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, (617) 451-1570, walkbos@shore.net Map and self guided walking tour tracing the Colonial shoreline of Boston.

Walking and Health, Walking for Exercise, Physiology of Walking

• Gerald Donaldson, "The walking book", Published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. Subject: Walking --Physiological aspects. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Charles T. Kuntzleman and the editors of Consumer guide, "The complete book of walking", Published: Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980, 1978. Subject: Walking Physical fitness Large type books In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Casey Meyers, "Walking: a complete guide to the complete exercise", Published: New York: Random House, 1992. Subject: Walking. Exercise. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Othniel J. Seiden; [illustrated by Jerre Harris Cannon], "Walk!--get into shape the easy way", Published: Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Books, 1985. Subject: Health Walking In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Robert Sweetgall, James Rippe, and Frank Katch; with John Dignam; illustrations by Frederick Bush, "Fitness walking", Published: New York, NY: Perigee Books, 1985. Subject: Walking. Physical fitness. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington

Walking Fiction, Poetry, Philosophy, Psychology, Children’s Books

• Kathryn Davis, "The walking tour", Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington A novel about people and relationships, that happens to be set in a walking tour of Wales.
• Satoshi Kitamura, "Lily takes a walk", New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Subject: Walking Juvenile fiction. Dogs Juvenile fiction. "Lily enjoys walks with her dog Nicky, not realizing he is fending off unseen monsters all along the way." A children’s book about talking a walk. In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network
• David Kenneth Specter, "Urban spaces" Photos. by the author, Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society, 1974 Subject: Pedestrian facilities design. Architecture --Psychological aspects. Pedestrian areas. In the collections of the libraries of the Minuteman Library Network
• John R. Stilgoe, "Outside lies magic: regaining history and awareness in everyday places", New York: Walker and Co., 1998. Subject: Walking --United States --Philosophy. Cycling --United States --Philosophy. United States --Description and travel --Psychological aspects. United States --History, Local --Philosophy. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington
• Aaron Sussman and Ruth Goode, "The magic of walking", Published: New York, Simon and Schuster [1967] "The company of walkers, a peripatetic ramble through the literature of walking'' consists of an anthology compiled by the authors. In the collection of the Robbins Library, the public library of Arlington