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Walkable City Rules is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now. Jeff Speck's follow-up to his bestselling
Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life.
The 101 rules are practical yet engaging--worded for arguments at the planning commission, illustrated for clarity, and packed with specifications as well as data. For ease of use, the rules are grouped into 19 chapters that cover everything from selling walkability, to getting the parking right, escaping automobilism, making comfortable spaces and interesting places, and doing it now!
About the author
Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for more walkable cities. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he oversaw the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design. Prior to joining the endowment, Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at DPZ and Co., the principal firm behind the New Urbanism movement. He is author of
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time and the co-author of
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as
The Smart Growth Manual. Suburban Nation was called "the bible of urbanists," by the
Wall Street Journal." The
Christian Science Monitor called
Walkable City "timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work," and "required reading." Jeff Speck's TED talks and other videos have been viewed more than three million times. With
Walkable City Rules, he can be expected to cement his role as the most listened-to city planner in America.
Summary
Rules and instructions for making cities walkable, from the most well-known and respected voice in walkability.
