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Toward the Walkable City

Urban planner Jeff Speck chats with Cities about his latest book.
Courtesy of Jeff Speck

Walkable City, the new book by Jeff Speck, has been lauded by the Los Angeles Times as nothing less than a primer on "pedestrianism as a baseline for urban life." Planetizen recently named it one of their 10 best planning books of 2013.

Speck, an urban planner based in Washington, D.C., who is also co-author of