Scott Huler || Author of On the Grid

Cul de sacs = ruin, but we knew that

Monday, May 10, 2010

Everyone where I live, in Raleigh, NC, knows the awful truth about cul de sacs: they may mean there's less traffic on your street, so your kids can set up a basketball hoop or play touch football, but everything about them murders your community and your planet. Those maps full of what look like little keyholes are death traps.

So no surprises when the great website Infrastructurist.com hooked into a fabulous piece of research from the Harvard Business Review showing how ruinous cul de sac development is to community, planet, and health.

Here's hoping the occasional Raleighan reads the report -- and is the type to absorb information, not dismiss it.

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