Chuck Marohn, Strong Towns President, will be giving a Confessions of a Recovering Engineer presentation in Hurst, TX on September 24, 2021.

This event is hosted by Urban Management Assistants of Northern Texas and sponsored by ZacTax.

LOCATION: Hurst Conference Center | DATE: September 24, 2021 | TIME: 2:00-4:00pm Central

UMANT is excited to host a stop on the upcoming national book tour for "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town" by Strong Towns founder, Chuck Marohn. Mr. Marohn will do a 90 minute presentation followed by a Q&A portion, and UMANT will host a networking happy hour after the event (TBD). Registration will open in August and availability is limited.

Charles Marohn, professional engineer and founder of the Strong Towns movement, lifts the curtain on America’s transportation system in his newest book, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. 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.