Charles Marohn
Charles Marohn—known as “Chuck” to friends and colleagues—is the founder and president of Strong Towns. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, both from the University of Minnesota. He has decades of experience in planning and engineering.
Every traffic projection is wrong
Instead of accepting that dynamic relations of traffic are unknowable and developing a management approach that does not rely on false projections to provide an illusion of certainty, traffic modelers make their models more complicated and opaque.
Financial fragility is to blame for Jackson’s water crisis
Note: This article first appeared on Strong Towns. Public Square editor Robert Steuteville is on leave through the last week of October.
I’ve spent some time trying to understand what has happened with the water system in Jackson, Mississippi. For...