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CM 018: Jeff Speck on Designing Cities that Fuel Innovation
CM 018: Jeff Speck on Designing Cities that Fuel Innovation
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Jan 11, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
Why do most people want to live in walkable cities and towns? How can places like these influence our well-being and impact the spread of innovation?
Jeff Speck, city planner, urban designer, TED Talk speaker, and bestselling author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, offers fascinating and fact-filled responses to these questions. Along the way, he tells us the changes needed to make cities the thriving places that most people want.
In this episode you will learn:
what is a walkable city
how walkable cities drive innovation by attracting talent
what makes cities safer than suburbs
how more traffic signals actually make cities less safe
why the most popular solutions to congestion actually increase it
what the cheapest solution is for making a city more walkable
how great urban design trumps weather every time
Jeff also shares a fascinating insight regarding a possible downside of self-driving cars.
Links to Topics Mentioned in this Podcast
@JeffSpeckAICP
The Walkable City TED Talk by Jeff Speck
Walkscore
Externalities
Millenials Seek Walkable Cities
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
Single Family Housing
Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett
Induced demand and traffic
Free Good
Donald Shoup
Prospect-refuge Theory and Jay Appleton
Charrettes for Design
Andres Duany
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Inclusionary zoning
Granny flats
Wyandanch, New York
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
Jarrett Walker - Human Transit
If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. Thanks for listening!
Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo!
www.gayleallen.net
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@GAllenTC
Jeff Speck, city planner, urban designer, TED Talk speaker, and bestselling author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, offers fascinating and fact-filled responses to these questions. Along the way, he tells us the changes needed to make cities the thriving places that most people want.
In this episode you will learn:
what is a walkable city
how walkable cities drive innovation by attracting talent
what makes cities safer than suburbs
how more traffic signals actually make cities less safe
why the most popular solutions to congestion actually increase it
what the cheapest solution is for making a city more walkable
how great urban design trumps weather every time
Jeff also shares a fascinating insight regarding a possible downside of self-driving cars.
Links to Topics Mentioned in this Podcast
@JeffSpeckAICP
The Walkable City TED Talk by Jeff Speck
Walkscore
Externalities
Millenials Seek Walkable Cities
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
Single Family Housing
Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett
Induced demand and traffic
Free Good
Donald Shoup
Prospect-refuge Theory and Jay Appleton
Charrettes for Design
Andres Duany
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Inclusionary zoning
Granny flats
Wyandanch, New York
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
Jarrett Walker - Human Transit
If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. Thanks for listening!
Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo!
www.gayleallen.net
@GAllenTC
Released:
Jan 11, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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