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The article says that governments began “encouraging” curvy streets and dead ends, but that’s understating things. The FDR administration effectively banned gri
by burlesona 4y ago
The article says that governments began “encouraging” curvy streets and dead ends, but that’s understating things. The FDR administration effectively banned grids by requiring curvilinear streets for new developments to qualify for the new federally subsidized 30-year mortgages (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), aka what we think of now as a “normal mortgage.” It’s hard to compete with a heavy government subsidy, so other forms of financing essentially vanished overnight, and thus no new development would use a grid again.
- hammock 4y agoI’ve never heard this and am fascinated. Where can I read more?
- nunez 4y agohttps://www.planetizen.com/node/58690 https://www.planetizen.com/node/58690
- lstamour 4y agohttp://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-suburbs/post-war/national-trends.html http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-suburbs/po... talks more about it under the heading “Trends in Subdivision Design”. Part of its source material is from a 2002 publication: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/NRB46_Suburbs_part1_508.pdf https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/NRB46_S... (8mb PDF, see page 59 of the PDF, with printed page number of 49.)