TY - BOOK AU - Marohn, Charles L. Jr. TI - Confessions of a recovering engineer : : transportation for a strong town SN - 9781119699293 AV - HE 308 .M37 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - Hoboken, New Jersey PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc., KW - URBAN TRANPORTATION KW - CITIES AND TOWNS N1 - Includes index; Introduction: Conversation with an Engineer -- Chapter 1: Embedded Values -- Chapter 2: The Difference Between a Road and a Street -- Chapter 3: Whose mistakes Do We Forgive? -- Chapter 4: Understanding Roads -- Chapter 5: Great Streets -- Chapter 6: Traffic Congestion -- Chapter 7: Intersections and Traffic Flow -- Chapter 8: Transportation Finance -- Chapter 9: Public Transit -- Chapter 10: Transportation Technology and Fads -- Chapter 11: The Routine Traffic Stop -- Chapter 12: Reforming Transportation Professions -- Chapter 13: My Confession N2 - Confessions of a Recovering Engineer will be a logical 'Part 2' to Marohn's book Strong Towns. It builds on Strong Towns: Bottom-Up Revolution by focusing on the core transportation insights Marohn has developed in more than a decade of writing for Strong Towns. The article Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (November 2011) remains the most widely read and distributed piece ever published on the Strong Towns website. In the past few years, we have seen an increase in public interest as it pertains to our local communities and improving upon them. Put simply, more and more people are beginning to care about their community and improving it. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer examines the one of the key elements of any community both large and small: the transportation system. ER -