Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places 3rd edition

Speck, a city planner and urban designer who advocates for more walkable cities, enumerates 101 short-term city planning practices to make cities more walkable, related to selling walkability, mixing uses of the community, making housing attainable and integrated, parking, transit, escaping automobilism, safety, optimizing the driving network, creating the right number and size of lanes, selling cycling, building a bike network, using street parking, focusing on geometry and intersections, making sidewalks right, creating comfortable spaces, creating interesting places, and taking action now. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
“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.
Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now. 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. 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!