Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

“Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.”
 —David Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker
  
Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now.
 
The 101 rules are practical yet engaging—worded for arguments at the planning commission, illustrated for clarity, and packed with specifications as well as data. For ease of use, the rules are grouped into 19 chapters that cover everything from selling walkability, to getting the parking right, escaping automobilism, making comfortable spaces and interesting places, and doing it now!
 
Walkable City was written to inspire; Walkable City Rules was written to enable. It is the most comprehensive tool available for bringing the latest and most effective city-planning practices to bear in your community. The content and presentation make it a force multiplier for place-makers and change-makers everywhere.
  
 

• Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
• Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
• Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
• Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit
• 101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School
• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
• Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
• Cities for People
• The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America
• Parking and the City