The Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation reports grid patterns can require 50 percent more space for streets than cul de sac patterns. That means an area with 400 square miles–approximately the ...

And European Cities Conform To A Street Grid Getting around a city that’s laid out in a square is certainly easier. Now you can see which cities are the least rigid in their design.

Grid street patterns consume more land than do cul de sacs. That should concern urban planners and new urbanists, who seem to believe that the last undeveloped lot in the nation is about to be ...