A review by brooklyn1
Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow! My new favorite book, especially in the nonfiction category. I finished this book a couple months ago and I still regularly think about some of the points he made. The roads are so integrated in our lives it's impossible not to, and he completely changed how I look at things. He revealed how the design of our road influence the collective behavior of drivers, which is something I found particularly fascinating. I like how he provided tangible ways in which US cities can improve, by using other US cities as examples. I mean not all of our cities are completely hopeless it turns out, even if that was a pretty bleak 10 year revisit. 

My only gripe would be there are no images in the book. Sometimes I think it would have helped to support his point if he were to show a map of the city he's talking about or show an image of a concept that to most readers would find foreign. I just used Google, but I think it would've helped ensure all the readers are on the same page. 

But still, that's my own hangup! Overall, great book and I highly recommend it.