[OKC] ULI presentation on OKC Walkability by Jeff Speck

[Shauna Struby]

Presentation for the ULI on March 31 on the making OKC walkable link.

 

ULI Oklahoma - Making OKC Walkable- Jeff Speck 

Date: March 31, 2009
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: One Park Avenue, Crystal Room, Oklahoma City, OK
Venue: Skirvin Hilton Hotel
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http://oklahoma.uli.org/

Making OKC Walkable. City planner and former NEA Design Director Jeff Speck
has been commissioned by the City of Oklahoma City to advise it on improving
pedestrian activity and street life downtown. In his presentation, Mr. Speck
will explain why OKC is ranked dead last nationally in walkability by
Prevention magazine and what easy but dramatic changes are needed to remedy
the problem. 

Mr. Speck's presentation begins at 6 p.m. and is free to the public. 

Jeff Speck, AICP LEED-AP, is the principal of Speck & Associates, LLC, in
Washington, D.C. He regularly provides his expertise to civic leaders to
make their communities more livable. Through design work, lectures, writing,
and federal service, he has contributed to an international movement that
seeks to re-center the practice of urban design around humanist principles.
In 2003, Speck was appointed director of deisng at the National Endowment
for the Arts, a post he held through May of 2007. In this position, he
directed the Endowment's two leadership initiatives in design: the Mayors'
Institute on City Design and its rural counterpart, Your Town: Changing its
Future. Prior to his federal service, Mr. Speck spent 10 years as director
of town planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ), where he helped the
firm solidify its status as the leading practitioner of the New Urbanism, a
global effort that seeks alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban
disinvestment. 

 

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