Book : Walkable City (tenth Anniversary Edition) How...

-Titulo Original : Walkable City (tenth Anniversary Edition) How Downtown Can Save America, One Step At A Time

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Picador

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About the Author Jeff Speck, coauthor of the landmark bestseller Suburban Nation, is a city planner who advocates for smart growth and sustainable design. As the former director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he oversaw the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, where he worked with dozens of American mayors on their most pressing city planning challenges. He leads a design practice based in Washington, D.C. “Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading.” The Christian Science MonitorNamed a best book of the year by Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects 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. Review “A delightful, insightful, irreverent work.” The Christian Science Monitor“If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism, Walkable City is its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century users manual.” Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers“A recipe for vibrant street life.” Los Angeles Times“Refreshing, lively and engaging . . . Walkable City isnt a harangue, its a fun, readable and persuasive call to arms.” Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)“Everyone interested in improving the quality of city life should read this book and heed its lessons.” John Strawn, The Sunday Oregonian“Among the perennial flood of books on urban design in all its forms, this one stands out.” John King, San Francisco Chronicle“Walkable City is an energetic, feisty book, one that never contents itself with polite generalities. Sometimes breezy and anecdotal yet always logical and amply researched, this is one of the best books to appear this year. Speck deserves the widest possible readership.” Philip Langdon, Better! Cities & Towns“Walkable City . . . will change the way you see cities.” Kaid Benfield, The Atlantic Cities“Jeff Speck, AICP, is one of the few practitioners and writers in the field who can make a 312-page book on a basic planning concept seem too short . . . For getting planning ideas into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. cities, this is the book.” Planning magazine“Jeff Specks brilliant and entertaining book reminds us that, in America, the exception could easily become the rule. Mayors, planners, and citizens need look no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again.” Joseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C.“Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In Walkable City, he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile.” David Owen, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis“Companionable and disarmingly candid, Jeff Speck perches on your shoulder and gets you to see your community with fresh eyes. He gradually builds a compelling case for walkability as the essential distillation of a vast trove of knowledge about urbanism and placemaking. The case he makes has you both nodding at the intuitive and seemingly obvious wisdom presented, and shaking your head at why those basic principles of fixing our cities have eluded us for so long.” Harriet Tregoning, founder of the National Smart Growth Network“Jeff Speck understands a key fact about great cities, which is that their streets matter more than their buildings. And he understands a key fact about great streets, which is that