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Jeff Speck is a city planner and architectural designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he oversaw the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design, a federal program that helps state governors fight suburban sprawl. Prior to joining the Endowment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co., a leading practitioner of the New Urbanism, where he led or managed more than forty of the firm's projects. He is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as The Smart Growth Manual. He serves as a Contributing Editor toMetropolis Magazine, and on the Sustainability Task Force of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. His new book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, is now available in print, digital, and audio format.
TOpening Jeff Speck is an urban designer, a city planner. He wants to give the lecture about city designing and he chose America as an example because he said,” I realized this is a global form, but I think I need to talk about America because there is a history in some places, not all, of American idea being appropriated, being emulated, for better or for worse, around the word.
The idea he refers to is sprawl and suburb.
And the worsted idea we’ve ever had is suburb and sprawl.” (Humor)
Suburb and sprawl meaning
The unplanned, uncontrolled spreading of urban development into areas adjoining the edge of a city.
By suburb and sprawl he refers the creation of landscape now required the amount of automobile use. He said his job is making our cities more walkable.
Epidemiology is the study (or the science of the study) of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined
TOpening Jeff Speck is an urban designer, a city planner. He wants to give the lecture about city designing and he chose America as an example because he said,” I realized this is a global form, but I think I need to talk about America because there is a history in some places, not all, of American idea being appropriated, being emulated, for better or for worse, around the word.
The idea he refers to is sprawl and suburb.
And the worsted idea we’ve ever had is suburb and sprawl.” (Humor)
Suburb and sprawl meaning
The unplanned, uncontrolled spreading of urban development into areas adjoining the edge of a city.
By suburb and sprawl he refers the creation of landscape now required the amount of automobile use. He said his job is making our cities more walkable.
Epidemiology is the study (or the science of the study) of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined