Two urbanism rockstars are joining forces to bring a game-changing analysis to more cities and spilling some trade secrets about low-cost design strategies that get people moving.
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Jeff Speck’s comprehensive two-day course on the most effective arguments, techniques, and tools for reshaping places in support of walking, biking, and transit. What makes a place walkable? What do design professionals, engineers, developers, and public officials need to know if they are to make, streets, landscapes, and communities more attractive to pedestrians? Join Jeff Speck, author of the best-selling Walkable City, for a comprehensive two-day course on the most effective arguments, techniques, and tools for reshaping places in support of walking, biking, and transit, including a design charrette with the City Manager of Watertown, MA, George Proakis. We will start by asking why walkability is desirable: most communities support the concept of walkability as a matter of course, but this commitment can waver in the face of countervailing pressures from entrenched interests. You will learn the most powerful economic, epidemiological, and environmental arguments for making a s