Five City Design Resolutions For A Better Place

Jeff Speck offers advice for city mayors and citizens who want to build better places.

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January 6, 2005, 7:00 AM PST

"Cities are the largest and most complex things that we humans make. Despite evidence to the contrary, the knowledge exists on how to make them well. To the mayors -- and citizens -- who want to create better places: Please start here.

...[F]or all the mayors in and around Memphis who want to make better places, and for the citizens who want to help, I offer the following five City Design Resolutions for the New Year:"...

Design streets for people...

Mix the uses...

Save that building...

Build green...

Don't forget beauty...

Jeff Speck is a city planner and director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he oversees the Mayors' Institute on City Design.

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Thanks to Sheila Edmundson Redick

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Community / Economic Development United States

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