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Strong Towns Accelerator Program: Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
Introduction
What to Expect
How to Navigate the Strong Towns Academy (5:56)
Meet Your Fellow Accelerators
Assignment: Personal Goals
Assignment: Communication as a Core Foundation (2:14)
Orientation Session, January 9, 2025
Understanding Strong Towns Principles
Introduction to Strong Towns (4:44)
6 Principles of a Strong Town (0:43)
Strong Towns Resources (7:56)
Session 1: Embedded Values in Engineering
Before you begin...
1.1 Conversation with an Engineer
1.2 Embedded Values (5:36)
1.3 Difference Between a Street and a Road (4:02)
1.4 Whose Mistakes Do We Forgive? (6:57)
Session 1: Small Group Coaching Session, January 13, 2025
Session 2: Differentiating Roads and Streets
Before you begin...
2.1 Understanding How People Drive (7:44)
2.2 People: The Indicator Species of Success (6:34)
2.3 The Pubic Investment Process for a Strong Town (15:30)
2.4 Establishing A Street Design Team (6:06)
Session 2: Small Group Coaching Session, January 27, 2025
Action Plans and One-On-One Coaching
Expert, One-on-One Coaching for Strengthening Your Community
Meet the Strong Towns Experts
What is an Action Plan?
How to schedule and prepare for mentorship sessions
Session 3: Understanding and Improving Traffic Congestion
Before you begin...
3.1 Manufacturing Congestion (6:08)
3.2 Induced Demand (7:00)
3.3 Responding to Congestion (7:28)
3.4 Intersections: Speed and Traffic Flow (6:29)
3.5 Streets With No Cars - Kansas City Case Study (7:07)
Session 3: Small Group Coaching Session, February 10, 2025
Session 4: Transportation Finance and Economic Implications
Before you begin...
4.1 Transportation Finance (4:29)
4.2 Economic Impact of Transportation Projects on Municipalities (5:58)
4.3 Making Financially Sustainable Transportation Investments (6:44)
Session 4: Small Group Coaching Session, February 24, 2025
Session 5: Public Transit and Transportation Technologies
Before you begin...
5.1 Transit as a Community's Greatest Wealth Accelerator (5:30)
5.2 The Small Steps That Make a Big Impact on Transit (16:06)
5.3 Value Capture (13:38)
5.4 Transportation Technology and Fads (9:46)
Session 5: Small Group Coaching Session, March 10, 2025
Session 6: Reforming Transportation Professions
Before you begin...
6.1 The Routine Traffic Stop (7:56)
6.2 Reforming Transportation Professionals (3:19)
6.3 Beyond Response Time: First Responders and Safer Streets (11:57)
6.4 Cameras and Automated Enforcement (6:35)
6.5 The Crash Analysis Studio (7:47)
Session 6: Small Group Coaching Session, March 24, 2025
Conclusion
Reflecting on your learning journey
Next steps in building a Strong Town
Resources for continuous education and support
Case Studies and Additional Resources
Embedded Values: Lessons from Disney
Understanding and Improving Traffic Congestion: Observed Stacking (3:58)
Understanding and Improving Traffic Congestion: Willow Street and College Drive (7:47)
Finance and Economic Implications: The Infrastructure Cult (7:13)
Finance and Economic Implications: Fix It First
Finance and Economic Implications: Allendale Strong
Finance and Economic Implications: Economic Gardening
Tools: Conducting a Citizen-Led Speed Study (10:43)
Tools: Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Getting It Done
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3.3 Responding to Congestion
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