Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods-How 'New Urbanist' Planners Sacrifice Safety in the Name of 'Openness' and 'Accessibility'

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Burras Road was a pleasant cul-de-sac of 21 new homes in Bradford, England. Its residents were blissfully unaware that, just east of the site, approval for a proposed new shopping center required the breaching of their cul-de-sac by a bicycle-pedestrian path.

Planners favored this requirement because, they say, cul-de-sacs do not encourage movement and therefore are

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