Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One St [Paperback]

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

WINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE

Updated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sadik-Khan

The bestselling urban planning book of the past decade, translated into seven languages,Walkable Cityhas changed the conversation on community design across America and beyond. It is reissued here with an extensive update, including eight new chapters covering housing equity, COVID, Uber, autonomous vehicles, urban forests, and more.

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.

Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold.Walkable Citybursting with sharp observations and key insights into how urban change happenslays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to make American cities the best they can be.

Jeff Speck, coauthor of the landmark bestseller Suburban Nation, is a city planner who advocates for smart growth and sustainable design. As the former director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he oversaw the Mayors Institute on City Design, where he worked with dozens of American mayors on their most pressing city planning challenges. He leads a design practice based in Washington, D.C.

A delightful, insightful, irreverent work. The Christian Science Monitor

If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism,Walkable Cityis its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century user's manual. Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers

A recipe for vibrant street life. Los Angeles Times

Refreshing, lively and engaging . . .Walkable Cityisn't a harangue, it's a fun, readable and persuasive call to arms. Steven Litt,lS+