Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile & Its Effects on Our Lives by Catherine Lutz; Anne Lutz Fernandez

Click title for link to BookTV presentation by the author.  There is a video of the talk that can't be embedded, but I highly recommend that you watch it.  It's about 50 minutes.  The author talks about our society's reliance on the automobile for transportation and all of the unintended consequences of a car-based society.  This has community planning implications since much of our infrastructure automatically is designed to promote and subsidize car travel, rather than other modes of travel such as walking, biking and mass transit.  Click here for specific website devoted to the book.