{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-recovering-engineer","title":"Confessions of a Recovering Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for CONFESSIONS OF A RECOVERING ENGINEER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time. It’s been more than a decade since its title essay rocked me to my core; reading it was my Meg Ryan \u003ci\u003eWhen Harry Met Sally\u003c\/i\u003e moment. Over the intervening years, Chuck’s message has become all the more necessary, and America may finally be ready for it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—JEFF SPECK,\u003c\/b\u003e city planner and author of \u003ci\u003eWalkable City\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWalkable City Rules\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This should be required reading—and the default approach to transportation—for anyone who cares about building safe streets and strong communities, whether transportation engineers, urban planners, policymakers or advocates.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—BETH OSBORNE,\u003c\/b\u003e Director of Transportation for America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Marohn shows how the manuals, standards, and professional practices of traffic engineering reflect judgments about who matters and who doesn’t—judgments that deserve to be visible so that we can all debate them.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—JARRETT WALKER,\u003c\/b\u003e transit planner and author of \u003ci\u003eHuman Transit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow American roads are designed and how we can do better\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe all want to live in a place where the transportation system serves us. But with crumbling roads, skyrocketing costs, maddening amounts of congestion, thousands of traffic deaths each year, and unreliable public transit…it feels like the other way around. So who’s serving who?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town,\u003c\/i\u003e renowned speaker and author of \u003ci\u003eStrong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e Charles Marohn pulls back the curtain on the assumptions and approaches that go into building and managing America’s transportation systems. He demonstrates how, with a different approach, any community can spend less and provide transportation systems that make their residents safer, wealthier, healthier, and more prosperous.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles L. Marohn, Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42854596051005,"sku":"9781119699293","price":38.66,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781119699293_8904aa52-5f30-41af-a8a2-2b6f24066b9b.jpg?v=1766917711","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/confessions-of-a-recovering-engineer","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}