We’re following up on our earlier post on the street grid and parks. This time we’re taking a closer look at how physical and perceived barriers can prevent access to parks – using TPL’s GIS mapping of park service areas to illustrate. There are two different approaches that TPL currently uses to determine how well [...]
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In a guest post at Kaid Benfield’s Switchboard blog (of NRDC), Rachel Sohmer very nicely describes the issues around street connectivity, using a childhood example about how the suburban dead-ends and cul-de-sacs made even short trips “as the crow flies” long given all the obstacles. The below figures show the difference more street connections can [...]
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