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ULI San Diego/Tijuana - Building Strong Towns in San Diego
ULI San Diego-Tijuana is proud to host Charles "Chuck" Marohn on November 18th at the San Diego History Center for a discussion of his work at Strong Towns, a nationally-recognized non-profit shaping the conversation on growth, development and the future of cities.
Charles will be giving his Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
presentation, where he will lift the curtain on America’s
transportation system in his newest book of the same name. 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.
San Diego History Center 1649 EL Prado San Diego, CA 92101-1662 UNITED STATES