Urban Planner #JeffSpeck Revisits ‘#WalkableCity,’ 10 Years Later - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-05/urban-planner-jeff-speck-revisits-walkable-city-10-years-later?cmpid=BBD120722_CITYLAB&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=221207&utm_campaign=citylabdaily

Urban Planner #JeffSpeck Revisits ‘#WalkableCity,’ 10 Years Later - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-05/urban-planner-jeff-speck-revisits-walkable-city-10-years-later?cmpid=BBD120722_CITYLAB&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=221207&utm_campaign=citylabdaily

Jeff Speck's updated book Walkable Cities is out now, and the excerpts published in Bloomberg are required reading. I especially endorse the section at the end about culpable traffic engineers, who deserve a significant share of the blame for creating dangerous environments AND preventing them from being improved and made safer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-06/how-did-us-streets-get-so-dangerous-blame-road-engineers
#JeffSpeck #WalkableCities

The #WalkableCity

The walk must satisfy these four conditions.

"Each of these is essential, none alone sufficient."

#3mphUrbanDesign #urbandesign #urbanism #JeffSpeck

"In most cities, and in most of our nation, the car is no longer an instrument of freedom, but rather a bulky, expensive, and dangerous prosthetic device, a prerequisite to viable citizenship." #JeffSpeck #WalkableCity

"The profession of civil engineering as it pertains to design of roadways is criminally negligent. It demands a giant class action lawsuit... be brought to their knees over the tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year they cause due to their “standards."" – #JeffSpeck

What the Last Decade Has Done for the #Walkability #Movement

In 2012, #JeffSpeck’s #WalkableCity sparked a conversation about why #pedestrianized #places matter and became one of the best-selling #books about the #built #environment in recent memory. Ten years later, though, so much about the world has changed — even as #humanCentered #communities have become more important than ever.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/11/15/what-the-last-decade-has-done-for-the-walkability-movement/