Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time /
Speck, Jeff
Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time / Jeff Speck. - 10th Anniversay Picador paperback edition. - xx, 438 s 21 cm.
"Updated with 100+ pages of new material and an introduction by Janette Sadik-Khan."--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-414) and indexes.
Introduction by Janette Sadik-Khan -- Prologue: A general theory of walkability -- Why walkability? -- Walking, the urban advantage -- Why Johnny can't walk -- The wrong color green -- The ten steps of walkability -- The useful walk: Step 1: Put cars in their place -- Step 2: Mix the uses -- Step 3: Get the parking right -- Step 4: Let transit work -- The safe walk: Step 5: Protect the pedestrian -- Step 6: Welcome bikes -- The comfortable walk: Step 7: Shape the spaces -- Step 8 : Plant trees -- The interesting walk: Step 9: Make friendly and unique faces -- Step 10: Pick your winners -- Update to the 10th Anniversary edition -- Preface to the 10th Anniversay update -- Do I need to remind you why? -- Long COVID -- American housing: Pick you crisis -- More engineering confessions -- Induced demand redux -- Cycling ascendant -- More comfort -- The role of city planning.
"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."--
9781250857989
Stadsplanering
Stadsf�rnyelse
G�ngtrafikanter
G�ngtrafik
Central business districts--Planning.--United States
Pedestrian areas--Planning.--United States
Urban renewal--United States.
City planning--United States.
City planning
Urban renewal
HT175
307.1 S74 2022
Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time / Jeff Speck. - 10th Anniversay Picador paperback edition. - xx, 438 s 21 cm.
"Updated with 100+ pages of new material and an introduction by Janette Sadik-Khan."--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-414) and indexes.
Introduction by Janette Sadik-Khan -- Prologue: A general theory of walkability -- Why walkability? -- Walking, the urban advantage -- Why Johnny can't walk -- The wrong color green -- The ten steps of walkability -- The useful walk: Step 1: Put cars in their place -- Step 2: Mix the uses -- Step 3: Get the parking right -- Step 4: Let transit work -- The safe walk: Step 5: Protect the pedestrian -- Step 6: Welcome bikes -- The comfortable walk: Step 7: Shape the spaces -- Step 8 : Plant trees -- The interesting walk: Step 9: Make friendly and unique faces -- Step 10: Pick your winners -- Update to the 10th Anniversary edition -- Preface to the 10th Anniversay update -- Do I need to remind you why? -- Long COVID -- American housing: Pick you crisis -- More engineering confessions -- Induced demand redux -- Cycling ascendant -- More comfort -- The role of city planning.
"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."--
9781250857989
Stadsplanering
Stadsf�rnyelse
G�ngtrafikanter
G�ngtrafik
Central business districts--Planning.--United States
Pedestrian areas--Planning.--United States
Urban renewal--United States.
City planning--United States.
City planning
Urban renewal
HT175
307.1 S74 2022