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Jeff Speck: The walkable city

TED Talks201300:16:56Creative Commons
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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.

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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, cities, culture, design, transportation, TEDCity2.0, 2013

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