Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Walkable City 10th Anniversary Edition

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.

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?

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.

Left: Cody Lannom, CC". Right: Courtesy Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

What the Last Decade Has Done for the Walkability Movement

By Streetsblog | Nov 15, 2022 | No Comments

In 2012, Jeff Speck’s Walkable City sparked a conversation about why pedestrianized places matter and became one of the best-selling books about the built environment in recent memory. Ten years later, though, so much about the world has changed — even as human-centered communities have become more important than ever.

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.