Table of Contents
1 Cover
5 Introduction: Conversation with an Engineer
6 1 Embedded Values The Crossing Hidden Values The Design Process Biased Language Understanding the Bias The Strong Towns Approach Notes
7 2 The Difference Between a Road and a Street Hierarchical Networks Roads and Streets The Stroad Stroad Conversion Productive Stroads The Strong Towns Approach Notes
8 3 Whose Mistakes Do We Forgive? Forgiving Design Risk Compensation Unforgiving Streets Forgiving Streets Updating Design Wisdom The Strong Towns Approach Notes
9 4 Understanding Roads Warrants Level of Service 85th Percentile Speed Speed and Travel Time The Most Important Roads The Strong Towns Approach Notes
10 5 Great Streets The Difference Between Growth and Wealth Creation Building Wealth Improving a Place The Street Design Team Iterating to Safety Complete Streets The Strong Towns Approach Notes
11 6 Traffic Congestion Manufacturing Congestion The Nature of Congestion Projecting Traffic Addressing Congestion with Efficiency Responding to Congestion Without Fake Projections The Strong Towns Approach Notes
12 7 Intersections and Traffic Flow Creating a Gap Six Corners Shared Space Intersections Willow Street and College Drive The High Cost of Traffic Flow The Strong Towns Approach Notes
13 8 Transportation Finance A Means to an End Allendale Strong The Fraud of Saved Time Calculations Make Believe Growth Fabricated Network Effects Reforming an Immoral System Notes
14 9 Public Transit The Purpose of Public Transit How Transit Became the Lesser Partner Transit as Wealth Accelerator Paying for Transit