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Jeff Speck


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Jeff Speck is a city planner who advocates internationally for more walkable cities. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he led grantmaking in that field and presided over the Mayors' Institute on City Design. Prior to his federal appointment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at DPZ & Co., helping to establish them as the principal firm behind the New Urbanism movement. Since 2007, he has led Speck & Associates—now Speck Dempsey—where his work has focused on making vibrant downtowns. His book Walkable City is the best selling city planning title written this century, and his TED talks have been viewed more than six million times. He lives with his wife, Alice, and sons, Milo and Roman, in a th ...more

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“Long gone are the days when automobiles expanded possibility and choice for the majority of Americans. Now, thanks to its ever-increasing demands for space, speed, and time, the car has reshaped our landscape and lifestyles around its own needs. It is an instrument of freedom that has enslaved us.”
Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

“The General Theory of Walkability explains how, to be favored, a walk has to satisfy four main conditions: it must be useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting.”
Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

“Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, sees things in a much simpler light: “God made us walking animals—pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.”38 That thought is beautiful, perfectly obvious,”
Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time



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