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    Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Jeff Speck “City engineers have turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to but not worth arriving at.” City planner Jeff Speck, who spent four years leading the design division of the National Endowment for the Arts working directly with a couple hundred mayors to help solve their greatest city-planning challenges, turns a perceptive eye towards what makes a great city and how we might be able to harness the power of a conceptually simple, practically complex, immeasurably far-reaching solution in improving the fabric and experience of urban life.

    Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    Jeff Speck

    “City engineers have turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to but not worth arriving at.”

    City planner Jeff Speck, who spent four years leading the design division of the National Endowment for the Arts working directly with a couple hundred mayors to help solve their greatest city-planning challenges, turns a perceptive eye towards what makes a great city and how we might be able to harness the power of a conceptually simple, practically complex, immeasurably far-reaching solution in improving the fabric and experience of urban life.

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