# The walkable city

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDCity2.0
- Speaker: Jeff Speck
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The walkable city](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city/8ea73f97ea6b), 17 min (TED's player)