Name: Walkable City Rules
ISBN: 9781610918985

Walkable City Rules

"Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable-for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment-yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now. The 101 rules are practical yet engaging-worded for arguments at the planning commission, illustrated for clarity, and packed with specifications as well as data. For ease of use, the rules are grouped into 19 chapters that cover everything from selling walkability, to getting the parking right, escaping automobilism, making comfortable spaces and interesting places, and doing it now! Walkable City was written to inspire; Walkable City Rules was written to enable. It is the most comprehensive tool available for bringing the latest and most effective city-planning practices to bear in your community. The content and presentation make it a force multiplier for place-makers and change-makers everywhere." --Publisher description.

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foxyvMar 2024

I do not know how you arrived at these odd conclusions, but I would recommend reading a few books on urbanism to understand exactly what I'm proposing.

The High Cost of Free Parking - https://a.co/d/7NIZHp9

Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity - https://a.co/d/19DDeTU

Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places - https://a.co/d/8F0cWzl

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ageitgeySep 2019

This is a well-researched traffic problem called induced demand [1] - building more roads in a congested city always makes traffic worse, not better, in the long term. Waze is giving people more roads to use, so they are in effect 'building more roads', which causes more total people to drive, which makes traffic even worse for everyone. There is no possible outcome here other than everything being worse for everyone involved, despite whatever libertarian views you might hold. Waze can only be a net loss for everyone for LA in the long term despite whatever benefits the early users got for a few years.

But banning Waze is just a band-aid. The real problem is that the only way to get around LA is to drive. The real solution for LA is to re-think itself as a walkable about city with real public transit options. There isn't enough physical space for everyone in LA to get to where they want to go in a giant, personal automobile while still leaving room for dense housing.

If you are interested in exactly how to redesign a city to make all transit more effective, check out the book 'Walkable City Rules' by Jeff Speck.

[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/citylab-unive...

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