Jeff Speck

Apr 22, 2024 | biggerpockets.com | Jeff Speck

The 25 Best Sunbelt Markets for Cash Flow—And a Closer Look at the Top 4Jazz icon and Los Angeles native Roy Ayers once famously sang, “Everybody Loves The Sunshine.” Never have truer words been said. The Sunbelt states are having their moment in the (ahem) sun, with […] Partnering Is a Great Way to Invest—As Long as You’ve Worked Out These 13 DetailsIn the last 16+ years, I’ve worked with many investors. Occasionally, I am asked about two or more people pooling their resources to buy properties.

Mar 4, 2024 | cnu.org | Jeff Speck

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: Complete streets plan? Vision zero plan? Active mobility plan? Micro-mobility plan? Walkability study? I’ve called them “walkability studies” since 2019, when we did our first, in Oklahoma City. Now I call them “walkability plans,” because “study” does not suggest how these efforts produce street designs that can be implemented immediately—and often are.

May 9, 2023 | audible.ca | Jeff Speck |M. Nolan Gray |Janette Sadik-khan |Kurt Kohlstedt

Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong...

Mar 2, 2023 | strongtowns.org | Jeff Speck

Recently on the Strong Towns Podcast, we did an interview with professional city planner and author Jeff Speck on the 10th anniversary re-release of his book Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, the best-selling urban planning book of the past decade.

Feb 11, 2023 | thehill.com | Jeff Speck

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced $800 million in grants to reduce traffic deaths (with $1.1 billion more on the way). The funds are desperately needed, but there’s a catch: For every deadly street that these grants make safer, American engineers continue to build dozens of new streets that are just as lethal. The problem is not just a few streets, but rather an entrenched apparatus of practices and standards that actively welcome dangerous driving.