Jason H.

“Save those buildings,” argues urban planner Jeff Speck in Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Places Better. Against a landscape of “increasing homogeneity, it is principally a community’s prewar buildings that serve to distinguish it from everywhere else and make it worth visiting,” he argues.

Steps to Making Better Places, argues that lanes should be narrowed to no more than ten feet. The portion between the Arkansas River to Main Street is 85 feet across, and Washington to Hydraulic is only slightly narrower.[6] Such wide roads impact a city’s walkability.

A new paid parking plan has been introduced in downtown Wichita. To a certain extent, urban planner Jeff Speck would agree with it. “Price parking based on its value,” Speck argues in Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places.