Title
Urbanism for Architects
Document Type
Video
Date
3-28-2017
Keywords
architecture, urbanism, jeff speck, syracuse
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture
Description/Abstract
Syracuse University School of Architecture Spring 2017 Lecture Series: "Urbanism for Architects" by Jeff Speck on March 28, 2017 at Slocum Hall
Recommended Citation
Speck, Jeff, "Urbanism for Architects" (2017). School of Architecture Lectures Series. 157.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_lectures/157
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Creative Commons License
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Additional Information
Jeff Speck 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.
With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Mr. Speck is the co-author of The Smart-Growth Manual and the “modern classic” Suburban Nation, which the Wall Street Journal calls “the urbanist’s bible.” His latest book, Walkable City–which the Christian Science Monitor calls “timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work” –was the best selling city-planning book of 2013-15.