Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Jeff Speck, David Dixon, and "new urbanism" in Tampa Bay, Florida

There is a Q&A in this article published in the Tampa Bay Times. I encourage anyone interested in walkability, bikability, and urban planning to read this article. Here are the first few paragraphs:
     David Dixon and Jeff Speck are two of the best urban planners in the business.
     That's why Jeff Vinik hired them.
     The Tampa Bay Lightning owner is planning a $1 billion transformation of the downtown waterfront. He wants to spend the next decade turning 40 acres of empty land and existing development into a livable space that will appeal to two important demographics: millennials and empty nesters.
     That's the speciality of "new urbanists" like Dixon and Speck. They're leading practitioners of "new urbanism," the movement to make cities more appealing and accommodating to human activity in order to generate economic activity.