Jeff Speck
Recent Posts
How To Fix A Fork (In The Road)
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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.
For a More Walkable City, Enlist the Fire Chief
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Rewrite the fire chief’s mandate to optimize public safety, not response times, says Jeff Speck in his new book, "Walkable City Rules."
Want a Better City? Cut Traffic Lights
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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."
Jeff Speck: For a Walkable City, Remove Centerlines on Local Streets
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In an excerpt from his new book, Walkable City Rules, Jeff Speck says centerline stripes don't belong on residential streets.
Walkable City Rules: Don’t Expand City Streets for Self-Driving Cars
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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
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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 […]