Chuck Marohn calls himself "a recovering engineer."
The Minnesotan civil engineer and urban planner founded the organisation Strong Towns to promote changes in the way cities are built.
Critical of the post-war development pattern, which is based around the car and requires a lot of infrastructure to be built and maintained by the city, Marohn says there is a way to build financially sustainable cities and towns that are safe and liveable.
He is visiting New Zealand to present at the Infrastructure Commission's annual infrastructure symposium this week in Wellington.
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