Walkable Cities webinar

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Kelley Segars

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Nov 4, 2013, 3:06:12 PM11/4/13

to bwk_officers, Amy Benner, Anne Victoria, Caroline Cooley, Chris Cherry, Chuck Faulkner, Cordell van Duuren, Lydia, David Bassett, David Harper, Deb Haines, Donna Dixon, Elle Colquitt, Ellen Zavisca, Erin Read, Georgie Kerber, Jeff Welch, Jim Hagerman, Jim Richards, John Witherspoon, Jon Livengood, Matthew Kellogg, Maximilian Spielmann, Melissa Edmiston

We are hosting this webinar featuring Jeff Speck, who was in Knoxville recently. For anyone who wasn't able to make it to his event, this webinar should be a good way to hear his ideas. I heard great things about him. Feel free to spread the word.

Friday November 8, 2013 (1-2:30 p.m. Eastern) | MPC large conference room, City County Building

Walkable City | Speaker Jeff Speck

The Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. In this Webinar, Jeff Speck outlines the compelling economic, health, and environmental mandates behind creating more walkable communities. He then discusses his General Theory of Walkability, which describes the measures that communities can undertake to create larger walking and biking populations by providing the "useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting walk."

Presenter Biography: Jeff Speck is a top expert on walkability and urban planning. He is a city planner and architectural designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. 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 to Metropolis Magazine, and on the Sustainability Task Force of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Of his latest work, Walkable City, Planning Magazine says: "for getting planning into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. Cities, this is the book."

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