#TEDTalk @JeffSpeckAICP at @TEDCity2_0

Like "The Walkable City" book by @JeffSpeckAICP? You'll love his #TEDTalk at @TEDCity2_0: http://t.co/NwSa2iJAQb pic.twitter.com/VjxTPU87fA

— TEDCity2.0 (@TEDCity2_0) November 5, 2014

Jeff Speck's Albuquerque New Mexico Downtown Walkability Analysis

Albuquerque, New Mexico Downtown Walkability Analysis. This project focuses on walkability and connectivity in downtown, with special attention to the area surrounding the Convention Center and Innovate ABQ site as well as the railroad track at Central Avenue. Jeff Speck's final report submitted Sept 2014 here. More from the City of Albuquerque's website here.

From CityLab — The Number One Thing We Could Do to Improve City Life

At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, CityLab asked a group of journalists, professors, and non-profit leaders to predict the future of livable, walkable cities. "If I could have one wish for people who live in cities," says Conservational International's M. Sanjayan, "it's that we find ways to connect back to nature, to remind [people] that nature isn't out there—outside the cities—but right in their homes where they live." Other panelists include Luís Bettencourt, Geoffrey West, Alissa Walker, Jeff Speck, and Jennifer Pahlka. Read more: The Number One Thing We Could Do to Improve City Life, According to Geoffrey West, M. Sanjayan, Jennifer Pahlka, and More - CityLab

Removing lanes will remove cars, not flow. @JeffSpeckAICP

I can't stress this enough. The number of drivers in Manhattan is a pure function of congestion. Removing lanes will remove cars, not flow.

— Jeff Speck (@JeffSpeckAICP) June 19, 2014

And if you don't understand what I mean, please watch this quick talk on induced demand: http://t.co/ITZgnOLsKH

— Jeff Speck (@JeffSpeckAICP) June 19, 2014

Jeff Speck at TEDxMidAtlantic — The General Theory of Walkability

"Concentration, not dispersion, is the elixir of urbanity." — @JeffSpeckAICP #WalkableCity

"Downtown is the part of the city belongs to everybody... Invest in downtown: only place-based way to benefit all citizens"—@JeffSpeckAICP
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) April 17, 2014

"Concentration, not dispersion, is the elixir of urbanity." — @JeffSpeckAICP #WalkableCity
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) April 17, 2014

From Metropolis Magazine — Ballet of the Sidewalk

Moves + Pepsi, New York City, 1955 © William Klein

Author Jeff Speck asks how lively streets can make for not just walkable cities, but good and just ones.  The soul of a city can be found by taking a walk. This is the essential premise behind all great street photography. Here Metropolis presents both classic examples and contemporary work, from Vivian Maier and William Klein to Boogie. More: Ballet of the Sidewalk - Metropolis Magazine - February 2014

The "health care crisis is largely an urban-design crisis, with #walkability at the heart of the cure" @JeffSpeckAICP
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) December 10, 2013

Jeff Speck in ChinaDialogue.net — Time to Get Cities Walking Again

（Image by Ramanathan Kathiresan)

We Americans have learned that reorganising our cityscapes around the automobile was a bad investment, not to mention an environmental disaster. Like many European cities, our most forward-thinking municipalities have turned away from road investment in favor of transit, bicycling, and pedestrian infrastructure. The evidence seems to support a contention of Winston Churchill: “The American people can be counted on to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the alternatives." Read more: Time to get US cities walking again | Jeff Speck - China Dialogue

From TED.com — Jeff Speck: The Walkable City

How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car -- which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device" -- by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people. Jeff Speck is a city planner and the author of "Walkable City." Full bio »

From TED Blog — Jeff Speck's Most Walkable Cities in the World

Jeff Speck, the author of the book Walkable City, will be speaking at TEDCity2.0 — which will take place in New York City on September 20. (Email rsvp@ted.com for more information on attending.) Speck picked some of the cities he’s found the most delightful to explore on foot. He qualifies his picks saying, “These lists are silly and inevitably wrong, but here are the places that I’ve been to and that I’ve enjoyed walking around the most.” Read more: The most walkable cities in the world | TED Blog

“Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.” ― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
— Taras Grescoe (@grescoe) August 16, 2013

RT @schwartzonomics: "The pedestrian is an extremely fragile species, the canary in the coal mine of urban livability." @jeffspeckaicp
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) May 4, 2013

—@acoyne sings @JeffSpeckAICP @strongtowns songbook: explains "induced traffic" "road pricing"

.@acoyne sings @jeffspeckaicp @strongtowns songbook: explains "induced traffic" "road pricing" @g_anderson1 @neil21 fb.me/2lhXY7Zq4
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) April 4, 2013

"Induced demand=increased roadways supply lowers driving time cost, more people drive, obliterates any congestion reduction"@jeffspeckaicp
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) April 3, 2013