Patrick Condon’s Rule 2 for sustainable communities: Design an interconnected street system
Third of Eight Excerpts
“Street systems either maximize connectivity or frustrate it. North American neighbourhoods built prior to 1950 were rich in connectivity, as evidenced by the relatively high number of street intersections per square mile typically found there,” writes Patrick Condon in his latest book, Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World.
“On the other end of the spectrum are the post-Second World War suburban cul-de-sac systems, where dead-end streets predominate and offer only one path from home to surrounding suburban arterials.”
To Learn More:
This is the third of eight excerpts published by The Tyee in September/October 2010. To read the complete excerpt, click on Cul-de-sacs: Dead Ends in More Ways Than One. To download a copy, click here.
Acknowledgment:
The Tyee is an independent publication that is found at www.thetyee.ca It went online in November 2003. According to David Beers, Editor, “We’re dedicated to publishing lively, informative news and views, not dumbed down fluff. We, like the tyee salmon for which we are named, roam free and go where we wish.” Since then, The Tyee has attracted some of the best journalists in B.C. who have broken many important stories.
Posted September 2010