GrantHenningerMay 15, 2023

I finally read Chuck Marohn's Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. As with all of Chuck's work on @strongtowns, it breaks down transportation issues into understandable ideas. However, it doesn't go deep enough to provide actionable steps people can take.

https://www.granthenninger.com/urban-planning/book-review-confessions-of-a-recovering-engineer

Book Review: Confessions of a Recovering Engineer — Grant Henninger

I’m writing this review while wearing my brand new Strong Towns t-shirt . I only bring this up to acknowledge my own bias when coming to this latest text by my friend Chuck Marohn.  Chuck started the Strong Towns blog a decade and a half ago and has grown it into one of the most influen

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Show threadGrantHenningerMay 15, 2023
Undoubtedly, Chuck would say that the questions he poses, and the dialectic method he advocates for, will lead to solutions to transportation problems that are unique to the local conditions. He is undoubtedly correct. That's also a very difficult path to building better cities.
Show threadGrantHenningerMay 15, 2023
However, at the end of the day, Confessions felt like the middle part of a conversation that was started with Chuck's previous book, Strong Towns. I do hope that Chuck continues the conversation by providing us with a trilogy of books.
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He's already given us books that talk about building productive places & the questions to ask to build a transportation network that supports a productive place. What we need is a more technical look at the approaches to answering those questions about the transportation network.
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Show threadAlex BallMay 15, 2023
@GrantHenninger I rather suspect you’re onto something with the trilogy idea