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1. 1. Confessions Of A Recovering Engineer

   Transportation for a Strong Town

   

   An insider’s critique of modern traffic engineering, this work argues that prioritizing speed, traffic volume, and standardized designs has made streets more dangerous, fiscally unsustainable, and hostile to community life. Using case studies and clear analysis, it explains how metrics like Level of Service and big, costly projects create “stroads” that underperform on both mobility and place. It proposes practical, incremental reforms—slower speeds, context-sensitive design, stronger street networks, and small, testable interventions—to improve safety, economic vitality, and neighborhood resilience. The result is a call to reorient transportation around people and places rather than throughput and expansion.

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2. 2. Strong Towns

   A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

   

   This book argues that most North American growth patterns—car-dependent, low-density suburban development—are financially unsustainable and erode civic resilience; it calls for a shift to incremental, locally driven development that prioritizes small-scale investments, repair over expansion, walkable mixed-use neighborhoods, and planning that aligns with long-term fiscal reality to create more adaptable, prosperous communities.

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