WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

<p><b>"Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading." ―<i>The </i></b><i><b>Christian Science Monitor</i></b><br><b><i></i></b><br><b><i></b></i><i>A Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects</i> </p><p>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</p><p>typical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold. <i>Walk-</i></p><p><i>able City</i>―bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how urban change</p><p>happens―lays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to make American</p><p>cities great again.</p>