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Jeff Speck

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Walkable City 10 Years Later: How Car Culture Takes Away Our Freedom

By Jeff Speck | Nov 18, 2022 | No Comments
We are often told that America’s car culture is integral to its freedom. But let’s parse that one out a little bit. Three factors— road policing, car dependence, and street design — would together seem to conspire otherwise.
Photo: Lukáš Lehotský, CC

Walkable City 10 Years Later: What If We Took Traffic Violence As Seriously As Terror?

By Jeff Speck | Nov 17, 2022 | No Comments
Research suggests that you are 568 times less likely to die in a terror attack than a car crash. So why do cities devote so much less to making their cities walkable than they do to preventing politically-motivated violence? 
Photo: Gabriela Claire Marino

Walkable City 10 Years Later: COVID-Safe Streets Are Walkable Streets

By Jeff Speck | Nov 16, 2022 | No Comments
Aside from Zoom — and, of course, mRNA vaccines — the most impactful technology to evolve thanks to COVID was the one at the very heart of Walkable City: street design. Jeff Speck explores how the pandemic re-shaped our streets — and what it will take to make those changes permanent. 
Photo: Matt Boitor, CC

Walkable City 10 Years Later: Cars Make Us Sicker Than We Thought

By Jeff Speck | Nov 15, 2022 | No Comments
The original edition of the landmark book Walkable City detailed some of the most devastating health impacts of an automotive lifestyle. In the years since, though, author Jeff Speck has discovered they were just the tip of the iceberg. 
The proposal for Kenmore Square.  

(Image: Studio Gang Architects, Reed Hilderbrand, and Speck & Associates.)

How To Fix A Fork (In The Road)

By Jeff Speck | Feb 1, 2019 | 16 Comments
Streets that fork at non-right angles create complicated intersections with dangerous sight lines and signals with too many phases. Here's an innovative fix.
San Francisco's new Vision Zero fire truck looks much like previous models, but it is 10 inches shorter and has a much narrower turning radius. Photo: Roger Rudick

For a More Walkable City, Enlist the Fire Chief

By Jeff Speck | Nov 12, 2018 | 11 Comments
Rewrite the fire chief’s mandate to optimize public safety, not response times, says Jeff Speck in his new book, "Walkable City Rules."
As part of a walkability study, nineteen of Albuquerque’s downtown traffic signals were deemed unnecessary. Nine have since been removed. Photo:  Speck & Associates LLC

Want a Better City? Cut Traffic Lights

By Jeff Speck | Oct 30, 2018 | 61 Comments
In Philadelphia, replacing traffic lights with four-way stops reduced serious injuries 68 percent, author Jeff Speck explains in an excerpt from his new book, "Walkable City Rules."
Brighton Road, London, after the removal of the centerlines. Data from three roads studied suggested an average nominal speed reduction of 6.9 mph. Photo: Transport for London

Jeff Speck: For a Walkable City, Remove Centerlines on Local Streets

By Jeff Speck | Oct 15, 2018 | 45 Comments
In an excerpt from his new book, Walkable City Rules, Jeff Speck says centerline stripes don't belong on residential streets.
As travel becomes cheaper and time wasted in traffic becomes more pleasant, AVs threaten to make congestion worse. Image Credit: © Rinspeed

Walkable City Rules: Don’t Expand City Streets for Self-Driving Cars

By Jeff Speck | Oct 3, 2018 | 6 Comments
An excerpt from the upcoming book Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck.

New Urban Love and Loathing in Buffalo: Jeff Speck Responds

By Jeff Speck | Jun 16, 2014 | 21 Comments
As a charter member of the Congress for New Urbanism, I’ve now attended twenty of the organization’s annual conferences. This month’s event may have been my favorite yet, mostly thanks to its location in downtown Buffalo, a place that reminds us so poignantly of both the successes and failures of city planning, as first lovingly […]
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