Walkable City by Jeff Speck was a great read. Unfortunately, I think I could have benefitted from it more deeply had I read it earlier on in my Urbanism journey. Overall, the book is a good introduction to anyone curious about urbanist principles. Speck introduces Donald Shoup's in-depth parking analysis in an understandable way. I also really liked that he included a lot of statistics.
A topic that really hit home for me in this book was the importance of "context" when redeveloping an area; that a trolley car will not bring back people, for example, or that 4-7 story apartments will fix a downtown.
Once again, one of my New Year's Resolutions is to write my blogs in a more timely manner.
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