Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck · 13 Nov 2012 · 342pp · 86,256 words
9: Make Friendly and Unique Faces Step 10: Pick Your Winners Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Geographic Index General Index Also by Jeff Speck Praise for Walkable City Copyright PROLOGUE This is not the next great book on American cities. That book is not needed. An intellectual revolution is no longer necessary. What
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later. Together, I believe that they add up to a complete prescription for making our cities more walkable. But first, we must understand that the walkable city is not just a nice, idealistic notion. Rather, it is a simple, practical-minded solution to a host of complex problems that we face as
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tended to maintain [its] value and [is] coming back nicely in selected markets today.”28 Not only have city centers fared better than suburbs, but walkable cities have fared better than drivable ones. Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez note that “the cities with the largest drops in housing value (such as
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thrived. The electronic groups fractured and struggled.”32 Face-to-face collaboration is, of course, possible in any setting. But it is easier in a walkable city. Susan Zeilinski, managing director of the University of Michigan’s SMART Center, puts it this way: “In Europe you can get five good meetings done
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the north-south streets in Oglethorpe’s delicate grid. Most still remain, and create perhaps the only significant impediment to pleasurably strolling this otherwise eminently walkable city. Recognizing this problem, the city government commissioned the architect Christian Sottile to study what happened to just one thoroughfare, East Broad Street, when it became
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new, big, expensive waterfront parks that nobody regrets—but rather that we shouldn’t allow open space to rip apart the urban fabric of our walkable city centers. Every city, particularly if it is to attract millennials, needs to provide easy access to nature, including regionally scaled trails for hiking and biking
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that is graced with rear alleys. Even more surprising is how small a network of walkability can be while still giving the impression of a walkable city. Some smaller cities that are known for their walkability, like Greenville, South Carolina, owe much of their reputation to just one great street. Less important
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the Decline of the American Dream (coauthor with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk) The Smart Growth Manual (coauthor with Andres Duany) PRAISE FOR WALKABLE CITY “Brilliant and companionable … Walkable City is at once entertaining and enraging, its pages dotted with jaw-dropping statistics.” —Carlin Rosengarten, The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) “Cities
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-dirty, step-by-step seminar on city repair—especially one conducted by as genial a presenter as Speck.” —Taras Grescoe, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “Walkable City is an eloquent ode to the livable city and to the values behind it.” —Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic and author of Why
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into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. cities, this is the book.” —Planning magazine “If you’re a professional planner or advocate, Walkable City is a new, essential reference. If you’re new to the subject, there’s no better introduction.” —Angie Schmitt, Streetsblog “Jeff Speck’s brilliant and
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no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again.” —Joseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C. “Walkable City … is a civic how-to for mayors, planners, architects, and anyone interested in the urban future … Full of insight, humor, and common sense.” —Martin C
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made to Charles Marohn for permission to use an excerpt from Grist. The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Speck, Jeff. Walkable city: how downtown can save America, one step at a time / Jeff Speck. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-374-28581-4
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, 1959, more houses were built than in the three decades before the end of the Second World War. As late as 1940, Phoenix was a walkable city covering a mere 17 square miles; it even had a small, but popular, streetcar network. After half a century of freeway building and rampant growth
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is going to be a crucial ingredient in the coming urban renaissance. In an era of rising energy prices, when people are realizing that livable, walkable city neighborhoods make for attractive places to raise families, cities like Philadelphia, with their legacy of good transit and excellent urban structure, will be well placed
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Environ-mentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Smith, P.D. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012. Soderstrom, Mary. The Walkable City: From Haussmann’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs’ Streets and Beyond. Montreal: Véhicule, 2008. Acknowledgments Every book is a voyage, but this one felt like a
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making trade-in decisions. My embrace of driving—while I had a car to drive, that is—was contributing to the demise of something smart—walkable city streets—though I didn’t realize it for years. I did attend classes, too. In New York State high schools, students take standardized tests, known
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half game to the team behind and takes a half game away from the team ahead. By moving not to another suburb but to a walkable city, a suburban young adult electing not to drive isn’t quite a “man bites dog” newsflash, but it is certainly a snap at what had
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12 Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Random House 1961), 36-37. 13 ITDP, Pedestrians First. Tools for a Walkable City (ITDP, 2018). 14 See Jan Gehl. Cities for People (Washington D.C.: Island Press 2010). 15 Jan Gehl. Cities for People (Washington D.C.: Island
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Brewery; bus 90 goes to Miller Park. For taxi service, try phoning Yellow Cab ( 414-271-1800). Madison Madison reaps a lot of kudos – most walkable city, best road-biking city, most vegetarian friendly, gay friendly, environmentally friendly and just plain all-round friendliest city in the USA. Ensconced on a narrow
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less lateral friction a motorist has, the faster a motorist is going to go,” says Dumbaugh. Jeff Speck, a renowned city planner and author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, puts it another way: “Most motorists drive the speed at which they feel comfortable, which
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nearly 500 percent: Peter Swift, “Residential Street Typology and Injury Accident Frequency,” June 1997; updated 2002, 2006. Jeff Speck, a renowned city planner: Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), p. 172. Specifically, Dumbaugh found: Eric Dumbaugh and Robert Rae
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