Jeff Speck

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City Planner & Urban Designer; Advocates for Smart Growth & Sustainable Design, Author of "Walkable City"

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Jeff Speck Biography

Jeff Speck is a city planner and author 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 — now Speck Dempsey —an award-winning urban planning firm serving public and private clients around the world.

With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Mr. Speck is the co-author of "Suburban Nation," which the Wall Street Journal calls "the urbanist's bible.” His 2012 book "Walkable City" was the best selling city planning title of the past decade and has been translated into eight languages. He is also the principal author of "The Smart Growth Manual" and "Walkable City Rules."

Speck has been named a fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Congress for New Urbanism. In a recent Planetizen poll, he was voted one of the ten “most influential urbanists of all time.” Mr. Speck was the 2022 recipient of the Seaside Prize, whose former awardees include Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than six million times.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/11/2024.

Jeff Speck Videos

  • Keynote: The Comfortable Walk | City Planner & Writer Jeff Speck
    In his General Theory of Walkability, veteran WRLDCTY speaker and Walkable City author Jeff Speck explains how people only choose to become...
  • CIVIQ 2023 with Jeff Speck
    Jeff Speck and Toward a More Walkable Chattanooga Chattanooga Design Studio Lecture Series September 2023
  • Trailer to CIVIQ 2023 with Jeff Speck
    Jeff Speck and Toward a More Walkable Chattanooga Chattanooga Design Studio September 2023

Jeff Speck Books

  • Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
    Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
  • WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
    WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
  • Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
  • The Smart Growth Manual: New Urbanism in American Communities
    The Smart Growth Manual: New Urbanism in American Communities

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