Why these weird little off-shoots, these appendages? In his article “Cul-de-Sacs: Suburban Dream or Dead End?” John Nielsen writes, “Developers learned that cul-de-sacs allowed them to fit more houses into oddly shaped tracts, and to build right up to the … According to the London Times, “the sprawling and looping design of cul-de-sacs forces people into their cars…many people routinely burn a litre of petrol on a shopping trip for a pint of milk. … …

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