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The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths, by Thoreau Institute economist Randal O'Toole, is an indictment of the smart-growth planning fad that is sweeping the nation's cities. The book presents an alternative way of dealing with urban problems that relies on incentives and markets rather than government planning and regulation.
The Vanishing Automobile CD includes the entire book in Acrobat format, The Costs of Smart Growth PowerPoint slideshow, all Vanishing Automobile updates to date, and nearly 30 megabytes of data on highways, transit, congestion, open space, and other urban information. The disk also includes both Windows and Macintosh versions of PowerPoint Viewer, Microsoft's free program for viewing, but not editing, PowerPoint shows.
The Preserving the American Dream CD includes papers presented at the February, 2003, conference of that name. It also includes recent transit, highway, and census data, other relevant papers, and a fully narrated PowerPoint show on "The Costs of Smart Growth in San Jose."
The Costs of Smart Growth videotape is a transfer of the PowerPoint slideshow to videotape for those who do not have a convenient way to present PowerPoint shows.
The Vanishing Automobile updates were a series of email updates that we sent to readers. This publication was replaced in 2007 by the Antiplanner blog. You can still sign up for the Vanishing Auto announcements list, which will be used to send out announcements about conferences, reports, and other events and publications.
The Vanishing Automobile (book), $14.95 plus $4.55 S&H
The Vanishing Automobile CD, $14.95 plus $1.00 shipping
Preserving the American Dream CD, $5.00 plus $1.00 shipping
The Costs of Smart Growth videotape, $9.95 plus $4.55 shipping
Book plus CD, $24.95 plus $4.55 S&H
Book plus videotape, $19.95 plus $8.00 S&H
CD plus videotape, $19.95 plus $4.55 S&H
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Reforming the Forest Service, also by Randal O'Toole and published by Island Press, is $16.95 including shipping. Multiple copy discounts are also available.
Reforming the Forest Service, $16.95 plus shipping
Unfortunately, we no longer publish Different Drummer magazine, but most of the back issues are still available for $5.95 each. The original research contained in issues on the National Park Service, Endangered Species Act, State Lands, Bureau of Land Management, and Forest Service is still very useful, and the Environmental Supermarket issue has been used as a textbook for several college courses.
Pork Barrel and the Environment
Creating the Environmental Supermarket
Reforming the Western Range
Incentives for Protecting North American Biodiversity
Tarnished Jewels: Reforming the Park Service
Reinventing the Forest Service
State Lands and Resources
Congress and the Federal Lands
The Endangered Endangered Species Act
The State of the Environmental Movement
An Environmental Agenda for the 105th Congress
Inside the Bureau of Land Management
A Proposal for the Forest Service's Second Century
All Citizens' Guides as well as the field guide to the President's forest summit are $2 each.
The Citizens' Guide to Reforming the Forest Service
The Citizens' Guide to the Forest Service Budget
The Citizens' Guide to the Timber Industry
The Citizens' Guide to Timber Management
The Field Guide to the President's Forest Summit
All research papers are $5 each.
Saving the Black-Footed Ferret
Saving the Bull Trout
The Impacts of Subsidies on Endangered Species
Incentives for Wildlife
The $64 Million Question: Tongass National Forest
Good Intentions: The Knutson-Vandenberg Act
Database for Greater Yellowstone Forests
Audit of Animal Damage Control
Audit of the Butte District BLM
Transitions: Growth in Rural Economies
Run Them like Businesses
1990-1992 National Forest Timber Sale Receipts and Costs
The Thoreau Institute has published more than 100 reports on many different topics. If you know of one not listed above, write the title below. Most reports are $5 each.
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Last updated 18 October 2001.