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On cul-de-sacs
2016-08-18 23:11problems of cul-de-sacs
http://www.citylab.com/design/2011/09/street-grids/124/
From the 1950s until the late 1980s, there were almost no new housing developments in the U.S. built on a simple grid.
networks that have 45 intersections per square mile (like Salt Lake City) and others that have as many as 550 (Portland, Ore).
In their California study, Garrick and Marshall eventually realized the safest cities had an element in common: They were all incorporated before 1930.
These cities were built the old way: along those monotonous grids. In general, they didn’t have fewer accidents overall, but they had far fewer deadly ones. Marshall and Garrick figured that cars (and cars with bikes) must be colliding at lower speeds on these types of street networks.
foreclosure hotspots tend to be focused in places with the least location efficiency – in spread-out subdivisions
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5455743
On the other hand, there's the problem of having to drive your car almost everywhere. Or, in Speck's words, the uneasy feeling that "your car is no longer an instrument of freedom but a prosthetic device."
cul-de-sac communities turn out to have some of the highest rates of traffic accidents involving young children.
"The actual research about injuries and deaths to small children under five is that the main cause of death is being backed over, not being driven over forward," he says. "And it would be expected that the main people doing the backing over would in fact be family members, usually the parents."
making walkable cul-de-sacs
http://www.accessmagazine.org/articles/spring-2004/reconsidering-cul-de-sac/
Bit more history, and a schematic diagram of changing patterns: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4yfhx9/eli5_why_arent_neighbourhoods_built_gridstyle/d6ngpp4
http://www.citylab.com/design/2011/09/street-grids/124/
From the 1950s until the late 1980s, there were almost no new housing developments in the U.S. built on a simple grid.
networks that have 45 intersections per square mile (like Salt Lake City) and others that have as many as 550 (Portland, Ore).
In their California study, Garrick and Marshall eventually realized the safest cities had an element in common: They were all incorporated before 1930.
These cities were built the old way: along those monotonous grids. In general, they didn’t have fewer accidents overall, but they had far fewer deadly ones. Marshall and Garrick figured that cars (and cars with bikes) must be colliding at lower speeds on these types of street networks.
foreclosure hotspots tend to be focused in places with the least location efficiency – in spread-out subdivisions
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5455743
On the other hand, there's the problem of having to drive your car almost everywhere. Or, in Speck's words, the uneasy feeling that "your car is no longer an instrument of freedom but a prosthetic device."
cul-de-sac communities turn out to have some of the highest rates of traffic accidents involving young children.
"The actual research about injuries and deaths to small children under five is that the main cause of death is being backed over, not being driven over forward," he says. "And it would be expected that the main people doing the backing over would in fact be family members, usually the parents."
making walkable cul-de-sacs
http://www.accessmagazine.org/articles/spring-2004/reconsidering-cul-de-sac/
Bit more history, and a schematic diagram of changing patterns: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4yfhx9/eli5_why_arent_neighbourhoods_built_gridstyle/d6ngpp4