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Jeff Speck

5 out of 5
1 review

City Planner & Urban Designer; Advocates for Smart Growth & Sustainable Design, Author of "Walkable City"

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Jeff Speck Biography

Jeff Speck is a city planner who, through writing, lectures, public service, and built work, advocates for more walkable cities. He leads Speck & Associates, a private consultancy offering design and advisory services to public officials and the real estate industry, while lecturing internationally on making cities more walkable, vital, and resilient.

Important work of Speck & Associates includes the Lowell, MA, Downtown Evolution Plan, walkability studies for fifteen different cities, and master plans for transit oriented developments along the Long Island Rail Road, Boston’s MBTA Green Line, and Utah’s Front Runner. He also led street design for Project 180 in Oklahoma City, which has rebuilt 50 blocks of downtown city streets. This project has converted a one-way street system back to two way, doubled the amount of on-street parking, and introduced a full bicycle network where none existed.

As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, Mr. Speck presided over the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. Both programs teach design skills to leaders nationwide.

Prior to his federal appointment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ), where he led or managed more than forty of the firm’s projects. These included the new communities of Middleton Hills (WI) and Rosemary Beach (FL), and transformative downtown plans for Baton Rouge and Fort Myers, FL. DPZ is a principal firm behind the New Urbanism, an international movement that promotes alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. Mr. Speck’s projects at DPZ and subsequently have won many national awards.

With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, he is the co-author of the “modern classic” “Suburban Nation,” which the Wall Street Journal calls "the urbanist's bible.” With Andres Duany, he wrote “The Smart Growth Manual,” published in 2010 by McGraw Hill. His 2012 book, “Walkable City” —which the Christian Science Monitor calls “timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work”—was the best selling city-planning book of the past decade, and won the 2013 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. Its sequel, “Walkable City Rules,” was named a Planetizen “Best Book” of 2018. These last two books have been republished in more than a dozen languages.

Mr. Speck has been named a fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Congress for New Urbanism. He was the 2022 recipient of the Seaside Prize, whose former awardees include Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than six million times.

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Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

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  • HOW TO BOOK Jeff Speck?

    Our booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure talent like Jeff Speck for both live and virtual events for over 15 years. The team at All American Entertainment represents and listens to the needs of organizations and corporations seeking to hire keynote speakers, celebrities or entertainers for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment. Fill out a booking request form for Jeff Speck, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get pricing information and check availability for Jeff Speck or any other celebrity of your choice.

  • HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BOOK Jeff Speck?

    Speaking fees for Jeff Speck, or any other keynote speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The amount that Jeff Speck charges to speak often varies according to the circumstances, including their schedule, market conditions, length of presentation, and the location of the event. The speaker fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only. In some cases, the actual quote may be above or below the stated range. For the most current fee to hire Jeff Speck, please fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak with an experienced booking agent.

  • WHO IS THE AGENT FOR Jeff Speck?

    All American Entertainment has successfully secured celebrity talent like Jeff Speck for clients worldwide for more than 15 years. As a full-service talent booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Jeff Speck for your next private or corporate function.

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    All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. We do not exclusively represent Jeff Speck or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Jeff Speck or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage.
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Jeff Speck

5 out of 5
1 review

City Planner & Urban Designer; Advocates for Smart Growth & Sustainable Design, Author of "Walkable City"

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Live Event: $10,000 - $20,000
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Jeff Speck Biography

Jeff Speck is a city planner who, through writing, lectures, public service, and built work, advocates for more walkable cities. He leads Speck & Associates, a private consultancy offering design and advisory services to public officials and the real estate industry, while lecturing internationally on making cities more walkable, vital, and resilient.

Important work of Speck & Associates includes the Lowell, MA, Downtown Evolution Plan, walkability studies for fifteen different cities, and master plans for transit oriented developments along the Long Island Rail Road, Boston’s MBTA Green Line, and Utah’s Front Runner. He also led street design for Project 180 in Oklahoma City, which has rebuilt 50 blocks of downtown city streets. This project has converted a one-way street system back to two way, doubled the amount of on-street parking, and introduced a full bicycle network where none existed.

As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, Mr. Speck presided over the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. Both programs teach design skills to leaders nationwide.

Prior to his federal appointment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ), where he led or managed more than forty of the firm’s projects. These included the new communities of Middleton Hills (WI) and Rosemary Beach (FL), and transformative downtown plans for Baton Rouge and Fort Myers, FL. DPZ is a principal firm behind the New Urbanism, an international movement that promotes alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. Mr. Speck’s projects at DPZ and subsequently have won many national awards.

With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, he is the co-author of the “modern classic” “Suburban Nation,” which the Wall Street Journal calls "the urbanist's bible.” With Andres Duany, he wrote “The Smart Growth Manual,” published in 2010 by McGraw Hill. His 2012 book, “Walkable City” —which the Christian Science Monitor calls “timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work”—was the best selling city-planning book of the past decade, and won the 2013 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. Its sequel, “Walkable City Rules,” was named a Planetizen “Best Book” of 2018. These last two books have been republished in more than a dozen languages.

Mr. Speck has been named a fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Congress for New Urbanism. He was the 2022 recipient of the Seaside Prize, whose former awardees include Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than six million times.

Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Jeff Speck and other top speakers and celebrities.

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Jeff Speck Videos

  • How to Make our Cities More Walkable | Jeff Speck - YouTube
    How to Make our Cities More Walkable | Jeff Speck - YouTube
    Walkability: The Best Motivation, Means and Measure for Making Sustainable Cities Speakers: Jeff Speck, Urban Planner In his bestselling ...
  • Jeff Speck: Autonomous Vehicles & the Good City - YouTube
    Jeff Speck: Autonomous Vehicles & the Good City - YouTube
    Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to be either a boon or a burden to our cities. Walkable City author Jeff Speck lays out rules ...
  • Jeff Speck: Urbanism for Architects - YouTube
    Jeff Speck: "Urbanism for Architects" - YouTube
    Architecture Spring 2017 Lecture Series - March 28, 2017 at Slocum Hall. Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who advocates ...
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Jeff Speck Books

Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

FAQs on booking Jeff Speck

  • How to book Jeff Speck?

    Our booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure talent like Jeff Speck for both live and virtual events for over 20 years. The team at All American Entertainment represents and listens to the needs of organizations and corporations seeking to hire keynote speakers, celebrities or entertainers for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment. Fill out a booking request form for Jeff Speck, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get pricing information and check availability for Jeff Speck or any other celebrity of your choice.

  • How much does it cost to book Jeff Speck?

    Speaking fees for Jeff Speck, or any other keynote speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The amount that Jeff Speck charges to speak often varies according to the circumstances, including their schedule, market conditions, length of presentation, and the location of the event. The speaker fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only. In some cases, the actual quote may be above or below the stated range. For the most current fee to hire Jeff Speck, please fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak with an experienced booking agent.

  • Who is the agent for Jeff Speck?

    All American Entertainment has successfully secured celebrity talent like Jeff Speck for clients worldwide for more than 20 years. As a full-service talent booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Jeff Speck for your next private or corporate function.

  • What is a full-service talent booking agency?

    All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. We do not exclusively represent Jeff Speck or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Jeff Speck or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage.

Jeff Speck is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Jeff Speck for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Jeff Speck generally travels from Brookline, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Majora Carter, Carlo Ratti, Greg Lindsay, Michael Shellenberger and Tensie Whelan. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jeff Speck for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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Jeff Speck Speaker Videos

  • How to Make our Cities More Walkable | Jeff Speck - YouTube
    How to Make our Cities More Walkable | Jeff Speck - YouTube
    Walkability: The Best Motivation, Means and Measure for Making Sustainable Cities Speakers: Jeff Speck, Urban Planner In his bestselling ...
    Jeff Speck: Autonomous Vehicles & the Good City - YouTube
    Jeff Speck: Autonomous Vehicles & the Good City - YouTube
    Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to be either a boon or a burden to our cities. Walkable City author Jeff Speck lays out rules ...
  • Jeff Speck: "Urbanism for Architects" - YouTube
    Jeff Speck: Urbanism for Architects - YouTube
    Architecture Spring 2017 Lecture Series - March 28, 2017 at Slocum Hall. Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who advocates ...
    The general theory of walkability | Jeff Speck | TEDxMidAtlantic ...
    The general theory of walkability | Jeff Speck | TEDxMidAtlantic ...
    Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who, through writing, public service, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth ...
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This website is a resource for event professionals and strives to provide the most comprehensive catalog of thought leaders and industry experts to consider for speaking engagements. A listing or profile on this website does not imply an agency affiliation or endorsement by the talent.

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