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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…

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1 author picked Walkable City Rules as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I thought I knew this stuff: what’s wrong with our inhospitable city streets and how great designers like Jeff Speck can make them better if given a chance.

But he packages the diagnoses and solutions so succinctly here: all the things a town can do to transform its streets from inhospitable auto sewers to places worth lingering, even while we improve movement for pedestrians and bicyclists but also for motorists.

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