Though unaccompanied by narration, clicking through these 50 slides from the Congress of the New Urbanism will give you a good general overview of street connectivity issues and how we arrived at our current sad state of affairs.
Norman Garrick compares street network design from pre-1950 and post-1950, factors that help determine the overall safety of safe pedestrian travel, and explains why it is so obvious that the pandemic of sprawl development is to blame for unsafe, poorly designed, disconnected neighborhoods.
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