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Originally Posted by DizzyEdge
I think curvilinear is fine if it has pedestrian cut-throughs.
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Oh, this is a bare minimum requirement. I'd say Calgary is doing a barely passable job here, at least in the newer areas. It could certainly be better. I've lived in curvilinear with hardly any and yeah, it's a mess. All you can do is walk in great big looping circles.
Part of the problem, at least in the NW, is the natural ravines, retention ponds, and other geographic features which make it harder to design straight through walking paths. Walking is definitely an afterthought in many cases. Plus extra thought needs to be put into large land parcels, whether they're for schools or (especially) large multi-family mega-blocks. I've seen more than a few which you can't just walk through - fences, berms, etc. Not sure why this is, maybe there's a perception that residents don't want pedestrian traffic cutting through their "personal space".
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