For Oct 15
Video: Clarence Eckerson, Jr. Cycling Copenhagen Through North American Eyes
What struck you in the Copenhagen video? What struck North Americans? Could we Copenhagenize American cities?
Website of Toole Design, a company founded by an NCSU grad working to make American cities more bicycle and pedestrian friendly. Look especially at their discussion of the “New E’s” of transportation. The old “E’s” were Engineering, Education, and Enforcement.
Does anything strike you in the Toole Design website? Why are “Empathy, Equity, and Ethics” important? Would you typically see this discussed on a company’s website?
Jennifer Toole’s talk to the Franklin Scholars, November 2023. On empathy in engineering
This is an article by an engineer from Toole Design:
Ian Lockwood, “Making the Case for Transportation Language Reform: Removing Bias,” Institute of Transportation Engineers. ITE Journal 87, no. 1 (January 2017): 41–43.
Why does he think language reform is necessary?
Some optional material:
Cars are a Disaster for Society–CityNerd
Charles Marohn, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
Darryl Fears and John Muyskens, “Black people are about to be swept aside
for a South Carolina freeway — again,” Washington Post, September 8, 2021
Here are the graphics to the article in a twitter thread.
October 20
Cameron Zamot and Lauren Blanch
Bike Entrepreneurs