One of the truly great urban planning books of the last decade is Walkable City by Jeff Speck.

This summer you can join Jeff in person for a two-day course on the most effective arguments, tools, and techniques

for improving walking, biking, and transit.

The course takes place June 15th and 16th on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

You'll learn powerful strategies for building stronger, healthier, more equitable places by focusing on walkability.

And you'll get hands-on experience working on a real-world urban design project

in the city of Watertown.

Whether you're already an urban design professional,

you aspire to become one,

or you just want to learn more about how to make your community more walkable.

This course is meant for you. To sign up, go to Google search for

Harvard Walkable City. It should pop right up. We'll also include a link in our

show notes. Jeff is a great teacher. People really enjoy

this course. Again, that's Walkable City with author and urban planner Jeff Speck,

June 15th and 16th at Harvard University Graduate School of Design Executive Education.

When we think about parking fights, like let's not limit ourselves to two guys going

at it with baseball bats, the real parking fight is the one that happens at the

community meeting, it's the one that happens in the city council, those disputes are the

ones that probably have the more meaningful, certainly have the more meaningful effect on the

parking supply and on the housing supply, because we envision new neighbors as coming in parking sized packages.

And so if you are obsessed with the parking shortage, that will lead you directly to this kind of mouthusian thinking about cities where every new neighbor, every new business, a new school, whatever, all that gets evaluated

in terms of its impact on the parking supply.

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