Name: Walkable City 6: The Interesting Walk
Rating: 4.56 (133 reviews)
Author: Jeff Speck

Course Info

8 video lessons (77 Mins)
Published
2025
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1.

Introduction

3 mins
2.

Hiding the Parking

10 mins
3.

Fixing Blank Walls

5 mins
4.

Providing Detail

6 mins
5.

Avoiding Repetition

13 mins
6.

Demise Lines

10 mins
7.

Regionalism

7 mins
8.

Urban Triage

21 mins

What You Will Learn

- Learn techniques for hiding in parking lots.

- Learn about blank wall remediation.

- Learn about the value of architectural detail.

- Learn about the value of architectural variety.

- Learn the Demise Line technique for breaking up big buildings.

- Learn about the value of regionalism.

- Learn how to focus walkability efforts where they can have the most impact.

Course Description

Nothing interests people more than other people. Humans will avoid walks that do not provide a sense of human habitation, human effort, and human scale. An interesting walk comes from urban design that hides its parking lots, avoids blank walls and monotony, provides many signs of human habitation, celebrates detail, and appears to be the work of many hands. Ideally, it also presents a character that arises from its region.

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