The Walkable City. Jeff Speck's Amazing Ted Talk
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How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car -- which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device" -- by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people.
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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2013-oct-the-walkable-city-jeff-specks-amazing-ted-talk
Jeff Speck was the closing speaker at the 2012 APA Florida Conference. He had originally hoped his new book (The Walkable City) would have been out by then but it was delayed a few months. After his talk, Jeff led a group of about 20 (including me) on a mini-charrette of a redevleopment area in Naples. It was great to work with him, even for just a few hours.
how to redevelop a triangle area surrounded by 2 six-lane state arterials....ee decided there was no good way to make these roads be truly pedestrian oriented, so we instead designed the project to face an inner public space....kind of like Mizner Park in Boca Raton
Great book.