Price Tags has run many posts featuring the ideas of Charles Marohn. (Here’s one, with video). Among other concepts, he’s come up with the term ‘stroads’ — the street/road hybrid that manages to be both expensive and unproductive.
Unlike many of speakers on urban transportation, he’s also a fiscal conservative who makes his case effectively to a small-government audience as much as to urban planners and engineers.
So we’re extremely pleased to have him come to Vancouver on October 24. You can sign up for the lecture here: Reserve
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THE MINNESOTA SERIES: ORIGINAL THINKING FROM THE AMERICAN MIDWEST (FEATURING CHARLES MAROHN)
Thursday, October 24, 7 pm
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (at SFU Woodwards)
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
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Admission is free, but we require reservations. Reserve
Over the next few months, the SFU City Program will be hosting speakers from a state that shares more than a border with Canada. We’ve been big fans of some of the urban thinkers there — in particular Charles Marohn, co-founder and president of ‘Strong Towns.’ Charles is a professional engineer who is passionate about planning and small towns, but also brings a civil-engineering perspective that results in original ideas. You can see more on youtube. Or his TED Talk. Better yet, come hear Charles Marohn live on October 24.
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So excited! So excited! So excited!
Gordon wrote: “…he’s come up with ‘stroads’ — a street/road hybrid that manages to be both expensive and unproductive”
I had to read this twice and do a quick Google search to arrive at the understanding that he’s credited for identifying them as a problematical category, as opposed to being a proponent of them.