Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
by Jeff Speck
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"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 show more 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." --Publisher description. show lessTags
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This is a hard one, because I enjoyed it, I agree with everything he said, but having just read his Walkable City, I found this book too similar to get too excited about. It's differentiation is apparently this would be a list of rules for implementing the findings in Walkable City, but I'm not a moron, so if I've learned that "large lanes are bad," it's not so hard to think up the rule "make smaller lanes," say.
If one hasn't read the earlier book, this is 5 star, brilliant, read it now stuff. If you've read the earlier book, this is 3 star, decent, but not worth going out of your way for it stuff. So I'm averaging to 4.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. show more I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). show less
If one hasn't read the earlier book, this is 5 star, brilliant, read it now stuff. If you've read the earlier book, this is 3 star, decent, but not worth going out of your way for it stuff. So I'm averaging to 4.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. show more I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). show less
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Jeff Speck is director of town planning for the firm led by Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk that has designed more than 200 new neighborhoods & community revitalization plans, most notably, Seaside, Florida. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
- Original publication date
- 2018
- People/Characters
- Jeff Speck
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Art & Design, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 307.76 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Communities Specific kinds of communities Urban communities
- LCC
- HT175 .S639 — Social sciences Communities. Classes. Races Communities. Classes. Races Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology Urban renewal. Urban redevelopment
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- 84
- Popularity
- 364,609
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (4.38)
- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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- 3
- ASINs
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