
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Are walkable cities ableist utopias? What about strollers on subways, baby seats in Ubers, and Grandma's walker on the bus? Internationally-acclaimed city planner Jeff Speck graciously and sagaciously parries these types of thrusts from Leah, in a conversation that will leave you looking at your city or town with new eyes. Jeff Speck, the 2022 winner of the Seaside Prize, was Director of Design for the National Endowment for the Arts and now heads Specks and Associates as a private design consultant primarily for American cities. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than 5 million times and his book Walkable City was the best-selling city-planning book of the last decade. His Harvard course in the Graduate School of Design is detailed at https://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/walkable-city
Additional Resouces:
Resources by Jeff Speck:
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Tenth Anniversary Edition, 2022
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places, 2018
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, 2001, with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
"Nine Keys to Safe Downtown Streets" Public Square, https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2020/01/07/nine-keys-safe-downtown-streets
"Why Walkable Communities are the Best Communities for Older Adults"
https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/livable-in-action/info-2018/walkable-communities-jeff-speck.html
jeffspeck.com
By Conversation Balloons5
1919 ratings
Are walkable cities ableist utopias? What about strollers on subways, baby seats in Ubers, and Grandma's walker on the bus? Internationally-acclaimed city planner Jeff Speck graciously and sagaciously parries these types of thrusts from Leah, in a conversation that will leave you looking at your city or town with new eyes. Jeff Speck, the 2022 winner of the Seaside Prize, was Director of Design for the National Endowment for the Arts and now heads Specks and Associates as a private design consultant primarily for American cities. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than 5 million times and his book Walkable City was the best-selling city-planning book of the last decade. His Harvard course in the Graduate School of Design is detailed at https://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/walkable-city
Additional Resouces:
Resources by Jeff Speck:
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Tenth Anniversary Edition, 2022
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places, 2018
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, 2001, with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
"Nine Keys to Safe Downtown Streets" Public Square, https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2020/01/07/nine-keys-safe-downtown-streets
"Why Walkable Communities are the Best Communities for Older Adults"
https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/livable-in-action/info-2018/walkable-communities-jeff-speck.html
jeffspeck.com

8,625 Listeners

235 Listeners

192 Listeners

19 Listeners

14,643 Listeners

26 Listeners

151 Listeners

21 Listeners

9 Listeners

12 Listeners

2 Listeners

14 Listeners

45 Listeners

7 Listeners

13 Listeners

2 Listeners

12 Listeners

7 Listeners