Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

We will discuss a book that explains why cities should create and grow walkable places, and how it can be done. Walkable downtowns and neighborhoods, the book argues, are the key to healthy, prosperous, affordable and appealing cities, and make other urbanist goals, like transit, mixed uses, bike lanes and density possible.

Jeff Speck is a city planner who specializes in walkable places.

We will look for lessons about how we can create walkable downtowns and neighborhoods in Urban Atlanta.