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

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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

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