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A world without projections
We don't need better projections to build a nation of Strong Towns. All we need is a clear...
Oct 1 2012 10:38am Charles Marohn
Not efficient, but orderly
We design for the peak hour or two and then, for the rest of the day, all of that capacity goes to...
Sep 24 2012 9:05am Charles Marohn
Crazy ideas
In my controversial blog on Kansas City streets, I recommended changing all downtown signalized...
Sep 20 2012 9:56am Charles Marohn
Hey, hey, Kansas City
There are obviously people who believe strongly that downtown Kansas City has a congestion problem...
Sep 17 2012 8:52am Charles Marohn
Streets with no cars
Kansas City has made huge investments on wide streets designed to maximize traffic flow, with...
Sep 13 2012 8:09am Charles Marohn
The College Drive challenge
The $9 million College Drive improvement in Brainerd is a classic Old Economy project — based on...
Sep 5 2012 8:22am Charles Marohn
Memphis infographic
Earlier this year I was in Memphis working with the Mayor's Innovation Delivery Team. Here's an...
Aug 27 2012 10:03am Charles Marohn
Roads, streets, STROADS and park roads
What to do with STROADS that need to be scaled back? Park roads, a potential model, are safe and,...
Aug 20 2012 10:09am Charles Marohn
The Original Highway Code
The Original Highway Code: Reproductions of Highway Code Booklets from the Thirties, Forties and...
Aug 6 2012 11:00am Charles Marohn
Build a better model
We humans are eager to pretend, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that...
Jul 30 2012 9:25am Charles Marohn
The projections fallacy
We need a system where we're not required to place huge bets on the future, oversizing...
Jul 23 2012 1:27pm Charles Marohn
A wave of bankruptcies
As long as we stick with the post-WW II model of growth for our cities, insolvency is inevitable.
Jul 16 2012 9:35am Charles Marohn
I love a parade
Why would a city, especially one that has billed itself for decades as the Fourth of July Capital,...
Jul 2 2012 8:19am Charles Marohn
PennDOT fiddles
Award-winning highway access ramps in Pennsylvania are an example of delusional economic...
Jun 25 2012 10:03am Charles Marohn
Inspired by Memphis
How tactical urbanism revealed demand for investment on city blocks.
Jun 18 2012 10:20am Charles Marohn
The predicament of local government
The demand for viable infrastructure needs to emerge from a productive land use pattern, just as...
Jun 11 2012 8:34am Charles Marohn
Can Baby Boomers be part of the solution?
We are in the third generation of the Suburban Experiment and, as it unravels, is it reasonable to...
Jun 4 2012 8:32am Charles Marohn
Engineering's echo chamber
America's engineering profession is blaming society for the messes it helped to create and...
May 29 2012 8:37am Charles Marohn
The value of value capture
Infrastructure should not be a catalyst for growth but something that emerges in support of...
May 21 2012 9:24am Charles Marohn
CNU 20 recap
I just got back from spending a week in West Palm Beach, meeting with new urbanists and, together...
May 14 2012 8:19am Charles Marohn
CNU 20 & NextGen
New urbanists from around the globe are gathering this week in West Palm Beach, Florida for the CNU...
May 7 2012 4:02pm Charles Marohn
Paved with good intentions
Doing the math on what those highway investments really return.
4 Apr 30 2012 8:13am Charles Marohn
Five strategies for strong towns
For engineering, planning, and housing officials, the mantra should be: Always Add Value.
6 Apr 23 2012 8:02am Charles Marohn
Assessing our future
Almost all of America's cities have far, far more liabilities than they have revenue that they...
Apr 2 2012 9:09am Charles Marohn
Addressing the planners
I see planners generally making every excuse possible — particularly blaming reticence of behalf...
13 Mar 26 2012 8:21am Charles Marohn
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