You said it in your reply: all the streets emptying onto a single artery. The fears of gangs etc that you cite are the common defenses of why people left speci

You said it in your reply: all the streets emptying onto a single artery. The fears of gangs etc that you cite are the common defenses of why people left specific inner cities in the 60s, but small towns (like Apex, in the source article) don’t have that problem and they do have the grids. The main issue affecting safety is simply traffic speed and street width. It’s quite easy to design a safe street for children by making it hard for cars to go fast, the best example of this being the Dutch “voonerf,” (https://youtu.be/bSBdshn2tUM https://youtu.be/bSBdshn2tUM). You can accomplish the same thing with more spread out garden style homes as well. For a more length explanation of the problems with the dendritic street pattern (pdf): http://www.urbanstudio.sala.ubc.ca/urbanstudio%202008/student%20materials/Chapter%203%20Draft%20Aug%208.pdf http://www.urbanstudio.sala.ubc.ca/urbanstudio%202008/studen...