Planners Make Streets Disappear

Parkland is replacing streets in master plans.

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June 7, 2002, 9:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Even as strategists figure out how to divide the 16-acre trade center superblock with a small-scale street pattern, planners elsewhere have been assembling large-scale parcels by eliminating proposed new streets and replacing them with parkland. They are...recognizing that not every new street enlivens a neighborhood or expands public space. And that even conventional wisdom cannot offer a 'one size fits all' planning solution."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Streets Vanish From Master Plans

Thursday, June 6, 2002 in The New York Times

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