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

      

      Table of Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      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