A Day in the Life of America’s Most Walkable Suburb
Suburban life has always been synonymous with long hours in the car– going to work, school, the grocery store, the mall, soccer practice and friends’ homes. Some people even drive to take a walk.
walkable cities
Buenos Aires: Building a People-Friendly City
Buenos Aires is fast becoming one of the most admired cities in the world when it comes to reinventing streets and transportation.
Parking: Searching for the Good Life in the City
For too long cities tried to make parking a core feature of the urban fabric, only to discover that yielding to parking demand tears that fabric apart.
The case for investing downtown
“Why on earth would we go back in time 70 years to model our current cities on?” Because it worked.
NYC Streets Metamorphosis
There’s nothing more dramatic than looking back five or ten years at Streetfilms footage (some of it a bit low-res) to see how much the livable streets landscape of New York City’s streets have changed.
The Walkable City
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.
The pedestrian pound: The business case for better streets and places – report
UK report shows the economic case for designing urban spaces for walking.
Detroit?? No, surely not here!
Are suburban areas inherently fragile? Not necessarily.
Transport – May 29
•Taking the Guesswork out of Designing for Walkability •Biking can be cool…until you’re a teen girl •Big Bad Rivers of Wolves
Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form – Book Review
To anyone who’s tired of fighting an uphill battle in arguing for increased density in order to make the case for walkability, Julie Campoli’s new book Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form will seem a god-send.
Book Review: Walkable City: How downtown can save America, one step at a time
Jeff Speck’s new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, is worth a read for its acerbic wit, alone. The author fits a remarkable collection of data and anecdotal evidence from his long career in urban design (which included a four-year stint at the helm of the National Endowment for the Arts’ design department) into a mere 260 pages while maintaining a tone that is both punchy and urgent. It’s not often that I’ve found people who can make the discussion of parking minimums entertaining, but Speck has a way with words.