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Walkable City How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

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ISBN-10: 0374285810

ISBN-13: 9780374285814

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jeff Speck

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Jeff Speck has spent his career determining what makes a city work, and he has boiled it down to one essential factor: walkability. For urban life to thrive, cities must prioritize pedestrians over cars. Six-lane highways tearing through downtown must give way to crossable streets, massive parking lots must give way to pedestrian plazas, architecture designed to be appreciated from afar must give way to welcoming buildings. Making all of this happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing what needs to be done is the trick. Speck can show us the invisible workings underneath the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can make the right decisions for our cities. Cities…    
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Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Jeff Speck is director of town planning for the firm led by Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk that has designed more than 200 new neighborhoods & community revitalization plans, most notably, Seaside, Florida.

Prologue
A General Theory of Walkability
Why Walkability?
Walking, the Urban Advantage
Why Johnny Can't Walk
The Wrong Color Green
The Ten Steps of Walkability
The Useful Walk
Put Cars in Their Place
Mix the Uses
Get the Parking Right
Let Transit Work
The Safe Walk
Protect the Pedestrian
Welcome Bikes
The Comfortable Walk
Shape the Spaces
Plant Trees
The Interesting Walk
Make Friendly and Unique Faces
Pick Your Winners
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Geographic Index
General Index