Is a Drunk Pedestrian Killed by a Driver Something To Care About?

People find it easy to blame a drunk driver for an accident, but what about a drunk pedestrian?

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Free Webcast: Transform Your Community with "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer"

This Member Week, we’re offering a special opportunity to hear one of our most popular Strong Towns presentations, free of charge!

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Come See "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer"—Live and for Free!

This Member Week, we’re offering a special opportunity to hear one of our most popular Strong Towns presentations, free of charge!

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Jeff Speck on Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

This week we’ve got a special treat: both the video and audio from a conversation between Chuck Marohn and renowned urban planner and walkability expert Jeff Speck.

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Changing the Conversation about Our Broken Transportation Systems

People are talking about Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. Here's what they're saying.

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Which Wins Out: An Engineer's Discretion or a Book of Standards?

Chuck holds a Q&A session with Confessions of a Recovering Engineer readers.

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Video: "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer" in Wichita

Strong Towns advocates in Wichita are changing that city’s conversation around how to build a better transportation system.

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2 Things Local Leaders Can Do to Fix Their City's Broken Transportation

#1: Stop framing every problem as a transportation problem.

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Other Engineers Make Their Confessions

Today we share some of the confessions we’ve received from readers both involved in and victimized by America’s broken transportation system.

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Now Available in Audio: "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer"

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer is now available in audiobook format!

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The Early Reviews Are In!

The Confessions book has been out for about two weeks now. Here’s what the early reviews are saying.

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Confessions of (Another) Recovering Engineer

Fellow “recovering” engineer Kevin Shepherd offers his confessions: “Looking back now, I can say that many projects I designed actually hurt people and their communities.”

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Are Traffic Engineers Sociopaths?

Why is it that traffic engineers seem to value the flow of cars over human lives and safety? Are they just sociopaths?

Learning from Biology, Not Physics

In general, engineers treat cities like a physics problem, but what we need is engineers who are able to humbly grasp the overwhelming complexity of human habitat and work.

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"Improvements"

So many engineering projects are formally called "improvements." The subtle bias of this language provides a glimpse at the values embedded within the profession.

Let's Talk Great Streets

Abby and Chuck deviate from the norm a little on this week’s Upzoned by talking not about an article from the internet, but about one chapter of a particular book (hint: it’s Confessions).

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Today Is the Day!

Today is launch day!

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All Traffic Models Are Wrong

Traffic engineers use projections of future traffic to make recommendations and decisions on transportation investments… The problem is, those projections are all wrong.

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We Need a New Conventional Wisdom About Streets

We're at a tipping point in how we design and think about our public streets. And things can tip the right way, once we confront the bankrupt ideology guiding our transportation system.