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    Tom Vanderbilt

    TOM VANDERBILT has written for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Popular Science, Financial Times, Smithsonian, and London Review of Books, among many others. He is a contributing editor of Wired UK, Outside, and Artforum. He is author of You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), and Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America. He has appeared on a wide range of television and radio programs, from the Today show to the BBC's World Service to NPR's Fresh Air. He has been a visiting scholar at NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, a research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, a fellow at the Design Trust for Public Space, and a winner of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, among other honors. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
    Beginners
    Beginners
    The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
    Tom Vanderbilt
    9780525432975
    $16.95 US
    Paperback
    Dec 21, 2021
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB
    You May Also Like
    You May Also Like
    Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
    Tom Vanderbilt
    9780307948595
    $16.95 US
    Paperback
    Apr 18, 2017
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Traffic
    Traffic
    Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
    Tom Vanderbilt
    9780307277190
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 11, 2009
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Tom Vanderbilt on the Today show

    Books

    Beginners
    Beginners
    The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
    Tom Vanderbilt
    9780525432975
    $16.95 US
    Paperback
    Dec 21, 2021
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB
    You May Also Like
    You May Also Like
    Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
    Tom Vanderbilt
    9780307948595
    $16.95 US
    Paperback
    Apr 18, 2017
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Traffic
    Traffic
    Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
    Tom Vanderbilt
    9780307277190
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 11, 2009
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    Tom Vanderbilt on the Today show

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