Charles L. Marohn, Jr. - Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

1 Cover

2 Title Page CHARLES L. MAROHN, JR

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Introduction: Conversation with an Engineer

6 1 Embedded Values The Crossing Hidden Values The Design Process Biased Language Understanding the Bias The Strong Towns Approach Notes

7 2 The Difference Between a Road and a Street Hierarchical Networks Roads and Streets The Stroad Stroad Conversion Productive Stroads The Strong Towns Approach Notes

8 3 Whose Mistakes Do We Forgive? Forgiving Design Risk Compensation Unforgiving Streets Forgiving Streets Updating Design Wisdom The Strong Towns Approach Notes

9 4 Understanding Roads Warrants Level of Service 85th Percentile Speed Speed and Travel Time The Most Important Roads The Strong Towns Approach Notes

10 5 Great Streets The Difference Between Growth and Wealth Creation Building Wealth Improving a Place The Street Design Team Iterating to Safety Complete Streets The Strong Towns Approach Notes

11 6 Traffic Congestion Manufacturing Congestion The Nature of Congestion Projecting Traffic Addressing Congestion with Efficiency Responding to Congestion Without Fake Projections The Strong Towns Approach Notes

12 7 Intersections and Traffic Flow Creating a Gap Six Corners Shared Space Intersections Willow Street and College Drive The High Cost of Traffic Flow The Strong Towns Approach Notes

13 8 Transportation Finance A Means to an End Allendale Strong The Fraud of Saved Time Calculations Make Believe Growth Fabricated Network Effects Reforming an Immoral System Notes

14 9 Public Transit The Purpose of Public Transit How Transit Became the Lesser Partner Transit as Wealth Accelerator Paying for Transit The Strong Towns Approach Notes

15 10 Transportation Technology and Fads Biking Scooters Transportation Software Rideshare Self-Driving Vehicles Boring Technology The Hyperloop High-Speed Rail Flying Cars Notes

16 11 The Routine Traffic Stop Traffic Stop as Pretext The Investigatory Traffic Stop Enforcement is Discretionary An Impossible Situation A Safer Alternative for Everyone A Strong Towns Approach Notes

17 12 Reforming Transportation Professions Thwarting Public Will Can the Profession Reform Itself? Learning from Biology, Not Physics Yet Another Complaint Notes

18 13 My Confession Note

19 About the Author

20 Acknowledgments

21 About Strong Towns

22 Index

23 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 1 Table 1.1 Values Applied to the Design of Streets Table 1.2 Who Makes the Decision?

2 Chapter 2 Table 2.1 Stroad Conversion

3 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Street Design Skills

1 Chapter 2 Figure 2.1 Relationship of functionally classified systems in serving traffi... Figure 2.2 Which transportation investment provides the most value?

2 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 American economic development pattern.Figure 4.2 City-centric traditional design.

3 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 How to address chronic speeding.

4 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Necessary traffic gap for crossing existing South 6th Street.Figure 7.2 Necessary traffic gap for crossing redesigned South 6th Street.

1 Cover Page

2 Title Page CHARLES L. MAROHN, JR

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Introduction: Conversation with an Engineer

6 Table of Contents

7 Begin Reading

8 About the Author

9 Acknowledgments

10 About Strong Towns

11 Index

12 WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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CHARLES L. MAROHN, JR

Copyright © 2021 by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. All rights reserved.

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