Jeff Speck
photo by Carlos Morales
“The City Livable: Modest Suggestions for Making Memphis Great”
On Thursday, May 1st 2008, the MRDC brought Jeff Speck to Memphis to discuss ways to make Memphis a great city. His 12 suggestions are as follows:
1. Build Memphis for humans, not just for cars
2. Stop demolishing your economic advantage
3. Plant trees
4. Organize neighborhoods around schools, around neighborhoods
5. Fix downtown first
6. Practice urban triage
7. Fix the 3rd Street promenade
8. Fill the Main/South Main knuckle
9. You deserve an urban waterfront
10. Build the missing monument
11. Stop the outer loop
12. Put cars back on Main Street for $50K
[Click here for audio clips of the presentation in mp3 format]