Name: 【TED】Jeff Speck: 4 ways to make a city more walkable (4 ways to make a city more walkable | Jeff Speck)
Uploaded: 2017-12-30T21:18:31.000Z
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So I'm here to talk to you about the walkable city.

it's a city in which the car is an optional instrument of freedom,

And I'd like to talk about why we need the walkable city,

and I'd like to talk about how to do the walkable city.

Most of the talks I give these days are about why we need it,

And also I gave that talk exactly a month ago,

So today I want to talk about how to do it.

I've come up with what I call the general theory of walkability.

A bit of a pretentious term, it's a little tongue-in-cheek,

but it's something I've thought about for a long time,

and I'd like to share what I think I've figured out.

In the American city, the typical American city --

the typical American city is not Washington, DC,

it's Grand Rapids or Cedar Rapids or Memphis --

in the typical American city in which most people own cars

and the temptation is to drive them all the time,

if you're going to get them to walk, then you have to offer a walk

It means you need to offer four things simultaneously:

there needs to be a proper reason to walk,

You need to do all four of these things simultaneously,

and that's the structure of my talk today,

The reason to walk is a story I learned from my mentors,

Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk,

the founders of the New Urbanism movement.

And I should say half the slides and half of my talk today

the story of the formation of the planning profession.

When in the 19th century people were choking

from the soot of the dark, satanic mills,

the planners said, hey, let's move the housing away from the mills.

And lifespans increased immediately, dramatically,

the planners have been trying to repeat that experience ever since.

So there's the onset of what we call Euclidean zoning,

the separation of the landscape into large areas of single use.

And typically when I arrive in a city to do a plan,

a plan like this already awaits me on the property that I'm looking at.

is that you will not have a walkable city,

because nothing is located near anything else.

The alternative, of course, is our most walkable city,

and I like to say, you know, this is a Rothko,

It's just a different way -- he was the pointilist --

And even this map of Manhattan is a bit misleading

because the red color is uses that are mixed vertically.

So this is the big story of the New Urbanists --

to acknowledge that there are only two ways

to build communities, in the world and throughout history.

You see here several neighborhoods of Newburyport, Massachusetts,

which is defined as being compact and being diverse --

places to live, work, shop, recreate, get educated --

an invention that happened after the Second World War,

clearly not compact, clearly not diverse, and it's not walkable,

that those streets that do connect become overburdened,

and you wouldn't let your kid out on them.

And I want to thank Alex Maclean, the aerial photographer,

for many of these beautiful pictures that I'm showing you today.

So it's fun to break sprawl down into its constituent parts.

the places where you only live, the places where you only work,

and therefore, further and further from each other.

And the ratio of the size of the parking lot

which is that no child has ever walked to this school,

The seniors and juniors are driving the freshmen and the sophomores,

and of course we have the crash statistics to prove it.

And then the super-sizing of our other civic institutions

it's wonderful that Westin in the Ft. Lauderdale area

has eight soccer fields and eight baseball diamonds

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【TED】Jeff Speck: 4 ways to make a city more walkable (4 ways to make a city more walkable | Jeff Speck)

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