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Engineering Bad Outcomes (with CityNerd)

The Urbanist Agenda

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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

"It is a little bit crazy how much the engineers put their faith in these models because these models are not the best models and they're very very often shown to be wrong," he says. "I remember for example there was a street in Toronto where there had been some people hit by cars and this was a residential street that had been widened over the years but now the houses were basically right up against the street" He adds: "Because it comes with this very technical language it's hard to refute."

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