> Customers for these very deeply nested cul de sac homes tend to value privacy a lot. They don’t want people they don’t know passing through, and may be even more suspicious of pedestrians than drivers.
In which direction does the causation go? If I ended up on a partially closed road I would also become suspicious of people and start to value "privacy".
I suspect it goes the other way, stroads polarizing people against ever wanting to live near active corridors.
But either way, that’s how the vast majority of American housing development has been since the 40s, and it’s the only way people have ever lived in the cities that got their growth in the postwar period. So either way they have the preference.
In which direction does the causation go? If I ended up on a partially closed road I would also become suspicious of people and start to value "privacy".