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Debunking the Cul-de-Sac
EMILY BADGERSEP 19, 2011
Descend from 40,000 feet into just about any major metropolitan airport in the United States, and patterns of the trajectory of American life over the last century become clearly visible. Old urban cores are etched out in tight grids modeled off a sheet of graph paper. Further out, all those neat lines and right angles begin their curling meander into suburbia. Sparsely populated roads loop through the countryside in an odd geometry designed around the residential real estate dream of post-war America: a cul-de-sac for every family.
READ MORE: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2011/09/street-grids/124/
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