Election news got you down? Escape with Spontaneous Access this weekend. It’s 50,000 or so mostly non-fiction, yet highly entertaining, words which have essentially nothing to do with national politics.
Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport by David Levinson is now available at the iBookstore (best for Apple Mac/iPad/iPhone users) or Kindle Editions (everyone else). On sale for only $4.99, it will let you will travel much further than the two gallons of gas it would otherwise buy. To motivate you even more, the first chapter: The City Spontaneous, is available for free. (link below)
Table of Contents
- The City Spontaneous
- The 60-Year Line
- Community without dendricity
- The pint-of-milk test
- The timeless way of building networks
- Axioms about roads
- Garden streets
- Vitality
- An archipelago of walkability
- Filling in
- Leapin’ frogs
- The reorganization of road function
- Beyond the plan view
- Interfaces of freedom
- Instruments of control
- Shared space
- Winter is coming
- Diversity as insurance
- Differentiate city and country
- Don’t confuse the place for the time
- Great Britain doesn’t have an Americans with Disabilities Act
- Designs serve varied and sometimes conflicting interests
- A vision of visions
- A faster horse
- The Ant and the Grasshopper
- Deconstructing Busytown
- Spontaneity in a can, spontaneity in a plan
- Building the city spontaneous
- Framing regional development
- First do no harm
David Levinson, Transportist 
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