Growing Mobility for a Growing Region – Jeff Speck Lecture

The second guest speaker in our four-part Speaker Series on Mobility is Mr. Jeff Speck. Mr. Speck is the author of “Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step At A Time” and is a city planner and urban designer who advocates internationally for more walkable cities. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he presided over the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. Prior to his federal appointment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at DPZ & Co., the principal firm behind the New Urbanism movement. Since 2007, he has led Speck & Associates, a boutique planning firm that specializes in making American downtowns thrive.

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