Books

Long-form arguments about streets, automation, and infrastructure.

My goal is to write for practitioners and general readers in addition to academics.

End of the Road book cover — Bristol University Press, 2022

Authored · Bristol University Press · 2022

End of the Road

Reimagining the Street as the Heart of the City

A case for the street as the most valuable public space a city owns, and a practical program for redesigning it around people, commerce, and civic life rather than throughput alone.

Disruptive Transport book cover — Routledge, 2019

Edited volume · Routledge · 2019

Disruptive Transport

Driverless Cars, Transport Innovation and the Sustainable City of Tomorrow

An edited collection — edited by William Riggs — on how automation, shared mobility, and new business models reshape travel behavior, land use, and the policy choices cities must make well before the technology fully arrives.

Forthcoming 2026
Infrastructure for a Net Zero and Resilient Future in Cities

Cambridge University Press

Cover to come

Contributor · Cambridge University Press · Forthcoming 2026

Infrastructure for a Net Zero and Resilient Future in Cities

Contributing author among many

A multi-author volume on decarbonization, adaptation, and the financing and governance models required to deliver resilient urban infrastructure at scale.

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Peer-reviewed articles and chapters are listed on Google Scholar.