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Walkable City Rules

101 Steps to Making Better Places

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Jeff Speck

    1. Brookline, USA

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  • A practical follow-up to the bestseller, Walkable City, in response to reader demand
  • Jeff Speck is the most well-known name in walkability
  • Visual and easy-to-read steps that make walkability achievable
  • An inspiring yet practical tool for improving life in cities

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Table of contents (101 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Sell Walkability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Sell Walkability on Wealth

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 2-3

    3. Sell Walkability on Health

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 4-5

    4. Sell Walkability on Climate Change

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 6-7

    5. Sell Walkability on Equity

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 8-9

    6. Sell Walkability on Community

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 10-11

  3. Mix the Uses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 12-13
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    2. Invest in Attainable Housing Downtown

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 14-15

    3. Push for Local Schools

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 16-17

    4. Push for Local Parks

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 18-19

    5. Fix Your Codes

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 20-21

    6. Do the Math

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 22-23

  4. Make Housing Attainable and Integrated

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 24-25
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    2. Mandate Smart Inclusionary Zoning

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 26-27

    3. Encourage Granny Flats

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 28-29

    4. Leverage Housing with Parking Lots

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 30-31

    5. Fight Displacement

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 32-33

    6. Enact “Housing First”

      • Jeff Speck
      Pages 34-35

  5. Get the Parking Right

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 36-37
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About this book

“Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.” —David Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker
  Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now.
 The 101 rules are practical yet engaging—worded for arguments at the planning commission, illustrated for clarity, and packed with specifications as well as data. For ease of use, the rules are grouped into 19 chapters that cover everything from selling walkability, to getting the parking right, escaping automobilism, making comfortable spaces and interesting places, and doing it now!
 Walkable City was written to inspire; Walkable City Rules was written to enable. It is the most comprehensive tool available for bringing the latest and most effective city-planning practices to bear in your community. The content and presentation make it a force multiplier for place-makers and change-makers everywhere.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brookline, USA

    Jeff Speck

About the author

Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for more walkable cities. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he oversaw the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design. Prior to joining the endowment, Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co. He is author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time and the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as The Smart Growth Manual.

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