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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

by Jeff Speck

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A case for making cities easier to navigate on foot

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature

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A case for making cities easier to navigate on foot

Jeff Speck makes walkability the organizing idea of this urban-planning book, arguing that it can help downtowns become viable communities. The tenth-anniversary edition adds more than 100 pages, including chapters on housing equity, COVID, ride-hailing, autonomous vehicles, and urban forests. Together, the book’s practical focus and expanded subject matter connect street-level design with broader questions about how American cities change and serve their communities.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People interested in urban planning and downtown design.
  • Readers exploring walkability, housing equity, or urban development.
  • Those seeking a book that connects city design with contemporary issues such as ride-hailing and autonomous vehicles.

Themes

Walkability and urban designDowntown communitiesHousing equityTransportation and technologyUrban forests

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Book overview

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

WINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE

Updated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sadik-Khan

The bestselling urban planning book of the past decade, translated into seven languages, Walkable City has changed the conversation on community design across America and beyond. It is reissued here with an extensive update, including eight new chapters covering housing equity, COVID, Uber, autonomous vehicles, urban forests, and more.

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.

Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold. Walkable City--bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how urban change happens--lays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to make American cities the best they can be.

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