Posts by Jeff Speck — Guest Contributor
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There are powerful community reasons to invest in walkability
Greater Greater Washington is pleased to present two excerpts from Jeff Speck's highly-anticipated book, Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places. Keep reading…
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There are powerful equity reasons to invest in walkability
Greater Greater Washington is pleased to present two excerpts from Jeff Speck's highly-anticipated book, Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places. Keep reading…
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Beware the starchitects, beware repetition
DC resident Jeff Speck wrote Suburban Nation, the best-selling book about city planning since Jane Jacobs. Greater Greater Washington is pleased to present 3 weekly excerpts from his new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. We’ve come a long way since the seventies, when every city endeavored to build its own version of Boston’s… Keep reading…
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With fat lanes, traffic engineers kill in the name of safety
DC resident Jeff Speck wrote Suburban Nation, the best-selling book about city planning since Jane Jacobs. Greater Greater Washington is pleased to present 3 weekly excerpts from his new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. Contrary to perceptions, the greatest threat to pedestrian safety is not crime, but the very real danger of automobiles… Keep reading…
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What makes a place “walkable”?
DC resident Jeff Speck wrote Suburban Nation, the best-selling book about city planning since Jane Jacobs. His new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time comes out on November 13. Greater Greater Washington is pleased to present 3 weekly excerpts from the book. We’ve known for three decades how to make livable cities—after forgetting… Keep reading…