ISBN: 0865477728 9780865477728

Category: Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning

Page count: 312

<p><b>"Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading." —<i>The </i></b><i><b>Christian Science Monitor<br><br></b></i><i>A Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects</i> <br><br>Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. <br>Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the<br><br>typical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold. <i>Walk-</i><br><br><i>able City</i>—bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how urban change<br><br>happens—lays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to make American<br><br>cities great again.</p>