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Walkable City Community Read #4

Free
Thu, Nov 19, 2026 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Dovetail Café & Marketplace

Learn more about the importance of walkability for creating healthy and successful communities. Attend one or all of the events. Each will focus on a different section of the book or include a different activity. This gathering will focus on “The Safe Walk” and “Cycling Ascendent,” pp.71-72, 160-209, 335-343.

About the book: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step At A Time, by Jeff Speck (10th edition)

“Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city: is it eminently achievable and its benefits are manifold.” This book “lays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to make American cities the best they can be.”

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Date:
Thu, Nov 19, 2026
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://cahss.d.umn.edu/research-creative-work/centers-institutes/urban-excellence-institute

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Dovetail Café & Marketplace
1917 W. Superior St.
Duluth, MN, 55806 United States
218-481-7888
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