About the Event

Strong Towns Nanaimo is proud to host Doug and Sarah from The War On Cars as they tour the continent to celebrate the release of their new book: Life After Cars! Come learn about the beauty of a life without an automobile! Join your two favourite authors & podcasters for a moderated roundtable discussion on transportation, sustainability, and mobility in the urban context.

See you there!

🎟️ Tickets: By donation and available now.
📖 Optional: Pre-order the book Life After Cars with your ticket for pickup at the event.

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About Strong Towns Nanaimo

Strong Towns Nanaimo advocates for a new approach to urban planning and development that is financially resilient, sustainable, and equitable. We are a grassroots organization that is not affiliated with the City of Nanaimo. Everyone deserves to live in an affordable, equitable, and financially secure city. Decades of auto-oriented, sprawling development have left their mark on Nanaimo, leading to expensive housing, unproductive urban spaces, and unsafe streets. Together, we can advocate for a city built around people, not cars.

About The Authors

From the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything, and what we can do to fight back.

Sarah Goodyear is a journalist and author who has covered cities and transportation for publications such as Grist, CityLab, and Streetsblog.

Doug Gordon is a TV producer and writer who is also a neighbourhood safe streets advocate, better known online as Brooklyn Spoke.

Aaron Naparstek is the founding editor of Streetsblog, a news site that launched in 2006 and is dedicated to what was then called New York’s “livable streets” renaissance. They live with their families in Brooklyn, and they came together to create The War on Cars podcast in 2018 out of a sense that no one was covering the subject of cars and what they do to culture, society, and the planet in the way they felt it deserved. Doug and Sarah continue to host the podcast.