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Oct 16, 2013 16 min

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

from TED Design Hosted by TED: Ideas worth spreading

How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car -- which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device" -- by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people. A video of this talk

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