Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

<P>“Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading.” —<I>The </I><I>Christian Science Monitor<BR><BR></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.<I></I> <P>Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the<I></I></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><P>