Literally.
From the Chron comes a claim that the cohesion of cities often comes down to street layouts, and that there is a conflict between what is good for the residents of a subdivision and the city at large:
Streets, with rare exceptions, aren't very sexy. Yet, they are the basic building blocks of cities, and if they don't work well, nothing else is likely to work well, either.
Blogger Andrew Burleson applies this principle to my colleague Bradley Olson's story about a controversial partial street closure. Burleson's pitch for an "urban network" illustrates how a desire for privacy (no cut-through traffic!) doesn't always promote healthy neighborhoods.
