Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who, through writing, public service, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. He leads Speck & Associates, a private consultancy offering design and advisory services to North American municipalities and the real-estate development industry. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, Mr. Speck oversaw the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design. His recent book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time is exerting a profound impact on the design of communities nationwide. Recent work of Speck & Associates includes downtown master plans, waterfront visions, urban and suburban infill plans, transit-oriented designs, street plans, and walkability studies for communities including Lowell, Massachusetts; Memphis, Tennessee; and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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2013 Green Prize in Sustainable Literature—Urban Renewal: Walkable City.

First Place, Walkable Neighborhoods Category, National Making Cities Livable Conference: Fort Myers Downtown Streetscape, 2010.

E.U. Rotthier Prize for the Reconstruction of the City, Best Garden City in Europe of the Past 25 Years: Heulebrug, Knokke-Heist, Belgium, 2008.

Congress for New Urbanism. Charter Award: Johannisviertel, Berlin, Germany, 2003.

American Planning Association, New Jersey. Best Redevelopment Plan: Liberty Harbor North, 2001.