Jeff Speck
Urban Designer | Shaping People-Centric Cities
About
Jeff Speck is an award-winning urban designer and city planner who specializes in making cities more walkable and livable. As the former Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he helped thousands of communities across America improve their public spaces.
Speck is the author of the best-selling book 'Walkable City', which has become a foundational text for urban planners. His keynotes provide a data-driven, human-centric approach to designing cities that prioritize pedestrians, sustainability, and community engagement.
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4 ways to make a city more walkable
Freedom from cars, freedom from sprawl, freedom to walk your city! City planner Jeff Speck shares his "general theory of walkability" -- four planning principles to transform sprawling cities of six-lane highways and 600-foot blocks into safe, walkable oases full of bike lanes and tree-lined streets.
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