4 Ways to Make a City More Walkable

Speaking at a TED Talk, city planner and urban designer Jeff Speck shares four planning principles to transform sprawling cities with six-lane highways and 600-foot blocks into safe, walkable oases full of bike lanes and tree-lined streets. 

In his talk Jeff explains how to build "a city in which a car is an optional instrument of freedom rather than a prosthetic device”.

He talks about four planning principles that allow cities to be walkable:

1.    A reason to walk
2.    A safe walk
3.    A comfortable walk
4.    An interesting walk

Watch Jeff Speck’s full TED Talk below.