Charles Marohn, Strong Towns President, will be giving a Confessions of a Recovering Engineer webinar on January 3, 2022.

This event is part of the Brown Bag Lunch Author Series hosted by the Friends of the Brainerd Public Library.

LOCATION: Online Event   |   DATE: January 3, 2022  |   TIME: 12:00 PM CST

Charles will be giving his Confessions of a Recovering Engineer presentation, where he will lift the curtain on America’s transportation system in his newest book of the same name. In this book tour presentation, Marohn demonstrates how the values of engineers and other transportation professionals are applied in the design process, and how those priorities differ from the values of the general public. By showing how transportation investments are a means to an end and not an end unto themselves, Marohn reveals how the standard approach to issues like fighting congestion, addressing speeding, and designing intersections only makes transportation problems worse, at great cost in terms of both safety and resources. By contrast, the Strong Towns approach to transportation focuses on bottom-up techniques for spending less and getting higher returns, all while improving quality of life for residents of a community.