Car Culture

Empty swimming pools and deserted roadside motels feature prominently in No Lifeguard on Duty, a new book of photographs.

Nate Silver, the baseball stats guy turned election predictor, takes a look at the statistics showing that Americans are driving less.

The Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair excited an entire generation about suburbia. At a meeting of the Citistates Group, policy wonks wondered whether it's possible to create a new vision of a Carbon-Free Futurama.

Southern Californians, facing some of the worst gas prices in the country, are experimenting with taking public transit, as these personal stories from the Los Angeles Times attest.

A new 30-second television commercial from State Farm insurance suggests that commuting to work by bike is humiliating. But is the ad sending a more subversive message?