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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step At A Time (2012)

by Jeff Speck(Favorite Author)

4.3 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0374285810 (ISBN13: 9780374285814)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: I'm really surprised a book about city planning was this intriguing to me, but this book is so good! Speck is a really casual writer who fills his book with anecdotes, which can be much easier to read than the dense factual tome you might expect about such a subject.This book really left me thinking about the world around me in a new way. I was examining the streets, people, cars, parking, bikes lanes, etc. in the neighborhoods I visited. Aside from being fascinating, I also think it will help guide me in my future decisions of where to live, which is not something I ever expected to glean from it.
review 2: This book was very readable and engaging. It's the kind of book I wanted to read a little bit each day. And like another book by the same author, "Suburb... morean Nation," it reminded me of my love for cities, walkability and public transportation. Now, whenever I leave the house, I am thinking about street design and how it affects the possibility for pedestrian life. Before beginning this jaunt into urban design (which was a rabbit trail from a foundational interest of mine--the urban church), I never realized that pedestrians had any right whatsoever to the roads out there, and the fact that we do has become a great relief and encouragement to me. Armed with the knowledge that my drive to walk (no pun intended) to useful places is shared with many other like-minded people, I have begun to walk to area stores and use our transit system much more frequently and intentionally. less

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