Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

I’ve just ordered another six copies of this book. I’ve now ordered fifteen copies total. I LOVE this book and have bought copies to give to Planning Commissioners, bike / pedestrian / transportation advocates, and local lending libraries. Jeff Speck has created a ‘CliffsNotes’ compilation of wisdom that includes concepts from other urban design / transportation books that I’ve read. This book has great potential to change thinking and help us transform our cities to create truly livable places. The book is very approachable and light hearted. I highly recommend this book!

My city, Athens, GA, is in the process of putting in motion a plan to greatly enhance our pedestrian and biking infrastructure. I bought this book hoping it might give me some insights I might be able to offer my mayor and commission. I learned so much more about urban planning than I ever hoped. There's a lot more to making a city walkable than just putting in sidewalks! I first bought the audiobook version. It's read by the author and he does an excellent job. After listening to it all the way through, THREE TIMES, I also bought two copies of the paper version, one for me and one to give to my city commissioner. I refer to it with him regularly. I also went back and read Jeff Speck's older book, Walkable City. They compliment each other well, but as the author himself points out, the earlier book is more of a "Why" to make a city more walkable, and this one is more of a "How To" book. This book is a bit more of a coffee table type book, each "Rule" is only a few pages and most have illustrations, charts, or graphs. Its an easy and interesting read for a complex subject, and it even has a little humor sprinkled in.

If you've read Walkable City and want to use what you've learned to be an advocate in your city or town, you really need to read this book. Speck does an amazing job of teaching readers to use what they learned from Walkable City, whether that's influencing friends and family or literally speaking up at city meetings and influencing policy makers. If you want to be a part of creating positive walkability changes in your city, I'd argue you need to read this book.

Great book! Will make you rethink what your city should actually be doing to improve its walkability! Every city planning official should be made to read this book and implement changes accordingly. I have reached out to my local city department to urge them to conduct a walkability study!

Great companion to the book. Gives solid ideas and photos of where such ideas have been implemented. Bought one copy, and my city admin borrowed it. So I bought a second. Now we have two copies circulating through the administration. I'm looking forward to implementing some of these ideas.

I highly recommend this book for urban planners as well as anyone who walks, bikes, and rides transit in any city, anywhere in the world. Jeff Speck is a terrific writer and presenter. Makes a compelling case for why walkable cities are better for everyone, even the folks who get stuck driving in them. I recently had a successful GoFundMe campaign to get this informative and entertaining book into the hands of local government officials and town planners, and it was a huge success! Just a thought for those of you out there wishing your town or city was more livable and friendly to get around without a car... :)

As an urban planner I was really disappointed that this book focuses almost exclusively on a traffic engineering approach. I was expecting some out of the box thinking utilizing design and planning techniques.

Excellent book, well written, clearly explained. Does what it says on the cover.

El paquete llegó en el tiempo programado y en muy buenas condiciones.

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