mapmaker, mapmaker
By Todd Stadler · Wednesday, May 9, 2001 5:59pm
Who designs suburban streets? Why do they have to curve so much?
I mean, are they designed to go anywhere? Are they supposed to evoke a winding country road?
You'd think that efficiency in travel time, navigation, and land usage would guide the layout of streets, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all in the suburbs. And the thing is, most suburbs I know are like this.
Do people find grids to be aesthetically disquieting?