"Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work .
Walk- able City --bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how urban change happens--lays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to make American cities great again..
Making Downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city; it is eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold.
And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
Should be required reading." -- The Christian Science Monitor A Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. . . "Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work