A manifesto and guidebook for refocusing planners on the task of building a more livable world. From the bestselling author of
Walkable City and a prominent urban planning educator.
"Cities are the future of the human race," remarked
New Yorker writer David Owen, "and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work." With the renowned planning professor Emily Talen, Speck brings that knowledge to bear in
The Planner's Pledge--a manifesto and practical handbook that redirects city planning toward healthier, fairer, and more sustainable outcomes.
The growing call for walkable mixed-use communities is drowned out by the seemingly ceaseless construction of car-dependent single-use sprawl.
The Planner's Pledge aims to cut through the static and jumpstart the planning profession's commitment to building more livable cities and a more workable world.
Speck and Talen organize their
Pledge around 56 clear statements--each supported by evidence and examples--that form a coherent and practical framework for contemporary planning. The result is a compact, highly usable guide that connects big-picture goals--public health, equity, climate resilience, economic vitality, and social life--to everyday decisions about zoning, streets, housing, parking, transit, and historic buildings.
At once a critique, a teaching tool, and a call to action,
The Planner's Pledge gives practitioners, students, and engaged citizens a shared vocabulary and a set of priorities for creating walkable, mixed-use, transit-supportive, and socially diverse communities. Pairing moral clarity with practical guidance, the book equips the planning profession with the tools it needs to recover its public purpose and reclaim a leadership role in shaping better places.
一份宣言與指南，旨在讓規劃師重新聚焦於打造更宜居世界的使命。
本書作者為暢銷書《Walkable City》的作者，也是享有盛譽的都市規劃教育者。
《New Yorker》作家 David Owen 曾評論道：「城市是人類的未來，而 Jeff Speck 知道如何讓城市運作起來。」在知名規劃學教授 Emily Talen 的合作下，Speck 將這份知識運用於《The Planner's Pledge》——這是一份宣言兼實務手冊，旨在引導都市規劃走向更健康、更公平且更永續的成果。
人們對可步行、混合使用社區日益高漲的需求，正被看似無止盡的汽車依賴型單一用途蔓延式開發所淹沒。《The Planner's Pledge》致力於穿透這些喧囂，重新啟動規劃專業對於打造更宜居城市與更健全世界的承諾。
Speck 與 Talen 以 56 項清晰的論述組織這份「承諾」；每項論述都以證據與實例加以支持，共同構成一套連貫且實用的當代規劃架構。這本篇幅精簡、極具實用性的指南，將公共衛生、公平、氣候韌性、經濟活力與社會生活等宏觀目標，連結到分區、街道、住宅、停車、公共運輸與歷史建築等日常決策。
《The Planner's Pledge》兼具批判之作、教學工具與行動呼籲等多重角色，為實務工作者、學生及積極參與公共事務的公民，提供一套共同語言與優先事項，用以打造可步行、混合使用、支持大眾運輸且具有社會多元性的社區。本書將道德上的清晰立場與實務指引相結合，為規劃專業提供所需工具，使其重新找回公共使命，並重拾形塑更美好場所的領導角色。
Jeff Speck, former Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts and a founding principal of the firm Speck Dempsey, has worked on some of the most influential urban planning projects of the past thirty years. His book
Walkable City is the bestselling city planning title written this century, and his TED talks have been viewed more than six million times.
Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago, where she teaches urban design and directs the Urbanism Lab, and the author of
Neighborhood and
What Cities Say, among many other books. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
