{"product_id":"9780865477728","title":"Walkable City : How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWalkable City\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jeff Speck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. \u003cbr\u003eMaking downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etypical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold. \u003ci\u003eWalk-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eable City\u003c\/i\u003e—bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how urban change\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehappens—lays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to make American\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecities great again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A delightful, insightful, irreverent work.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism, \u003ci\u003eWalkable City \u003c\/i\u003eis its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century user's manual.” —\u003ci\u003eKurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A recipe for vibrant street life.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Refreshing, lively and engaging . . . \u003ci\u003eWalkable City \u003c\/i\u003eisn't a harangue, it's a fun, readable and persuasive call to arms.” —\u003ci\u003eSteven Litt, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everyone interested in improving the quality of city life should read this book and heed its lessons.” —\u003ci\u003eJohn Strawn, The Sunday Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Among the perennial flood of books on urban design in all its forms, this one stands out.” —\u003ci\u003eJohn King, San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWalkable City \u003c\/i\u003eis an energetic, feisty book, one that never contents itself with polite generalities. Sometimes breezy and anecdotal yet always logical and amply researched, this is one of the best books to appear this year. Speck deserves the widest possible readership.” —\u003ci\u003ePhilip Langdon, Better! Cities \u0026amp; Towns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWalkable Cit\u003c\/i\u003ey . . . will change the way you see cities.” —\u003ci\u003eKaid Benfield, The Atlantic Cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jeff Speck, AICP, is one of the few practitioners and writers in the field who can make a 312-page book on a basic planning concept seem too short . . . For getting planning ideas into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. cities, this is the book.” —\u003ci\u003ePlanning magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jeff Speck's brilliant and entertaining book reminds us that, in America, the exception could easily become the rule. Mayors, planners, and citizens need look no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again.” —\u003ci\u003eJoseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In \u003ci\u003eWalkable City\u003c\/i\u003e, he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile.” —\u003ci\u003eDavid Owen, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Companionable and disarmingly candid, Jeff Speck perches on your shoulder and gets you to see your community with fresh eyes. He gradually builds a compelling case for walkability as the essential distillation of a vast trove of knowledge about urbanism and placemaking. The case he makes has you both nodding at the intuitive and seemingly obvious wisdom presented, and shaking your head at why those basic principles of fixing our cities have eluded us for so long.” —\u003ci\u003eHarriet Tregoning, founder of the National Smart Growth Network\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jeff Speck understands a key fact about great cities, which is that their streets matter more than their buildings. And he understands a key fact about great streets, which is that the people who walk along them matter more than the cars that drive through them. \u003ci\u003eWalkable City\u003c\/i\u003e is an eloquent ode to the livable city and to the values behind it.” —\u003ci\u003ePaul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic and author of Why Architecture Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eWalkable City\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeff Speck demonstrates why he is among the most relevant and engaging writers on urban design today.” —\u003ci\u003eRon Bogle, president and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When I speak around the country, people ask me what is the first thing they should do to start their community on the path of smart growth. I will now say: Read Jeff Speck's \u003ci\u003eWalkable City\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eParris Glendening, governor of Maryland (1995–2003) and president of Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Truly a book that is so very needed, Walkable City moves theory into action. We now know we need to build walkable urban places for all sorts of economic, social, and environmental reasons. Jeff Speck shows how to do it in the same clear style we came to love in the classic \u003ci\u003eSuburban Nation\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eChristopher B. 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