Walkable City which came out ten years ago was a breakout success as a book about the why and how of creating walkable vibrant downtowns and helped bring the concept of walkability into the mainstream consciousness AND breaking news, it is being re-released as a special 10th-anniversary edition with a new forward by Janette Sadik-Khan and as you will learn in this video over 100 pages of new content provided as an update to the original text. It is expected out by November 2022. Jeff and I talk about this and much more in this episode.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
- Jeff's website: www.jeffspeck.com/
- Harvard Class: execed.gsd.harvard.edu/walkab...
- Suburban Nation: bookshop.org/a/85379/97808654...
- Walkable City 10th Anniversary Edition: bookshop.org/a/85379/97812508...
- Walkable City Rules: bookshop.org/a/85379/97816109...
- Seaside Award: bit.ly/3yfyyWR
- The Congress for the New Urbanism: www.cnu.org/
- James Howard Kunstler - The Geography of Nowhere: amzn.to/3MKXEkx
- James Howard Kunstler - Home from Nowhere: amzn.to/3Lyv1GR
- Urban Sprawl and Public Health by Frumkin, Jackson and Frank: bookshop.org/a/85379/97815596... or amzn.to/3IUuUDT
- Green Metropolis by David Owens: bookshop.org/a/85379/97815944...
- The Option of Urbanism by Christopher B. Leinberger bookshop.org/a/85379/97815972...
- The High Cost of Free Parking by Don Shoup: bookshop.org/a/85379/97819323...
- My five CNU30 OKC videos: bit.ly/CNU30Playlist
- Landing page for my episode w/ Shoup bit.ly/3KDFVuN
- My video highlighting Cambridge, MA: • Safer Street Designs I...
- My interview with Cara Seiderman: bit.ly/35tNfJp
- My Carmel, IN - Monon Blvd video: • Experience this amazin...
- Strong Towns book by Chuck Marohn: bookshop.org/a/85379/97811195...
- Confessions of a Recovering Engineer book by Chuck Marohn bookshop.org/a/85379/97811196...
- Jeff on the Strong Towns Podcast: • Jeff Speck on the Stro...
- There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer: bookshop.org/a/85379/97819821...
- Culdesac video: • Culdesac Tempe: Delive...
- Culdesac website: culdesac.com/
- My OKC Series: bit.ly/CNU30Playlist
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Background:
Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I’m a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.
Since 2010, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."
The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.
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