Summary: <a href="http://www.gayleallen.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Blog-Post-Jeff-Speck-1.png"></a>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? <br> <a href="http://www.jeffspeck.com/">Jeff Speck</a>, city planner, urban designer, TED Talk speaker, and bestselling author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp/0865477728">Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time</a>, 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.<br> In this episode you will learn:<br> <br> what is a walkable city<br> how walkable cities drive innovation by attracting talent<br> what makes cities safer than suburbs<br> how more traffic signals actually make cities less safe<br> why the most popular solutions to congestion actually increase it<br> what the cheapest solution is for making a city more walkable<br> how great urban design trumps weather every time<br> <br> Jeff also shares a fascinating insight regarding a possible downside of self-driving cars.<br> Links to Topics Mentioned in this Podcast<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffspeckaicp?lang=ms">@JeffSpeckAICP</a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp/0865477728">Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time</a> by <a href="http://www.jeffspeck.com/">Jeff Speck</a><br> <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city">The Walkable City TED Talk by Jeff Speck</a><br> <a href="https://www.walkscore.com/">Walkscore</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials">Millenial Generation</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers">Baby Boomer Generation</a><br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/">Friends</a><br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098904/">Seinfeld</a><br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159206/">Sex and the City</a><br> <a href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Externalities.html">Externalities</a><br> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/millennial-housing-2015-walkability-wins-out-cities-grow-suburbs-urbanize-new-2033779">Millenials Seek Walkable Cities</a><br> <a href="http://bowlingalone.com/">Bowling Alone</a> by <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/robert-putnam">Robert Putnam</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_detached_home">Single Family Housing</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Cornett">Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett</a><br> <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/">Induced demand</a> and traffic<br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_good">Free Good</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shoup">Donald Shoup</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Appleton">Prospect-refuge Theory and Jay Appleton</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking">Design Thinking</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charrette">Charrettes for Design</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Duany">Andres Duany</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Plater-Zyberk">Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk</a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Happy-City-Transforming-Through-Design-ebook/dp/B009LRWHPY">Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design</a> by <a href="http://www.charlesmontgomery.ca/">Charles Montgomery</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusionary_zoning">Inclusionary zoning</a><br> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/granny--flat">Granny flats</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyandanch,_New_York">Wyandanch, New York</a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon."></a>
