The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

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Lovegrove, Gordon R.; Sayed, Tarek (2006). "Using Macrolevel Collision Prediction Models in Road Safety Planning Applications". Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 1950: 73–82. doi: 10.3141/1950-09. With their sensitivity to people’s vulnerabilities and failings, and their sharpness of imagery, these 15 taut tales recall Annie Proulx at her best: salty, wise, droll and keen to share the lessons of a lifetime.

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a b Ben-Joseph, Eran (1995). "Livability and Safety of Suburban Street Patterns: A Comparative Study". University of California, Working Paper. 641. Berkeley, CA: Institute of Urban and Regional Development. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Masterful . . . [Kennedy] can make you laugh and wince all at once . . . A writer very much in control of her craft * Irish Independent * A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian 'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times 'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best collections I've read in years' Sinead Gleeson A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE JOHN MCGAHERN PRIZE In the US, these changes can be attributed to real-estate developers' desire to meet FHA guidelines and make federal home loans available to their customers. [14] In Canada, a similar incentive was provided to developers by CMHC. The incentives, which were discontinued in the 1970s, gave the initial impetus for the application of the hierarchical pattern. In other countries, such incentives do not exist, and adoption is motivated by customer preferences. In British English, the phrase "close" is generally used as a suffix for residential cul-de-sac roads, although several variants exist similar to those used in Commonwealth countries.Criticisms and discussion [ edit ] A cul-de-sac in Wrocław, Poland One of several short, narrow, connected cul-de-sac streets in Athens, Greece. The photos show the street (below) and the connecting footpath to the corresponding street (above). A plan of Village Homes in Davis, California, showing the street and path network with connected culs-de-sac A cul-de-sac sign in Dublin, Ireland Traffic safety issues [ edit ] Real estate developers prefer culs-de-sac because they allow builders to fit more houses into oddly-shaped tracts of land and facilitate building to the edges of rivers and property lines. [12] They also choose these discontinuous network patterns of cul-de-sac and loop streets because of the often significant economies in infrastructure costs compared to the grid plan. Uli Korsch. "Richtlinien für die Sicherung von Arbeitsstellen an Straßen RSA-95 (Übersicht alte und neue Verkehrszeichen)". Archived from the original on 2013-04-07 . Retrieved 2012-12-29. – Zeichen 357, 357–50 und 357-51 I read this book as a read along. We read one story a day, for 15 days. I usually read them in the mornings before work, and it is something I plan on continuing with some of the other story collections on my shelf.

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The title story is set on a ghost estate. It's told by a wife who we gradually learn has been abandoned by her developer husband who was caught with no chair when the music stopped in 2008. There's a great scene late where the narrator is in bed with Mike but remembering being in bed with Davy. Dead ends are added to road layouts in urban planning to limit through-traffic in residential areas. While some dead ends provide no possible passage except in and out of their road entry, others allow cyclists, pedestrians or other non-automotive traffic to pass through connecting easements or paths, an example of filtered permeability. The International Federation of Pedestrians proposed to call such streets "living end streets" [3] and to provide signage at the entry of the streets that make this permeability for pedestrians and cyclists clear. Its application retains the dead end's primary function as a non-through road, but establishes complete pedestrian and bicycle network connectivity. Good news: This collection is just the right length: 15 stories...reading time about 5 hours. I've learned a valuable lesson this year...NO more short story collection with 40 stories. It is just not doable...my eyes start to glaze over. When it comes to stories...less is more. The same opinion is expressed by an earlier thinker, Aristotle, when he criticized the Hippodamian grid: [5] an increased risk of the parents accidentally driving over the children in front of their own homes.

a b Frank, L. & Hawkins, C. (2008). Assessing Travel and Environmental Impacts of Contrasting Levels of Vehicular and Pedestrian Connectivity: Assessing Aspects of the Fused Grid. Ottawa: Canada Mortgageand Housing Corporation. In military parlance, a "cul-de-sac" refers to a situation where an army is "hemmed in on all sides but behind". [51] "Cul-de-sac" is also used metaphorically to mean a line of thought or action that leads nowhere. The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer. An extensive analysis of the research evidence by TRB, [30] however, shows only an association between the built environment and physical activity levels, not causal connections. The evidence also does not identify with certainty which characteristics of the built environment are most closely associated with physical activity behaviour. The study also warns against confusing inadequate physical activity with obesity which is the outcome of an energy imbalance. Many contemporary lifestyle trends, some inevitable (sedentary work) and some avoidable (frequent energy-rich food consumption or the watching of television [four hours per day]), contribute to the imbalance and must be considered in understanding and combating obesity.

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The positive feelings that a cul-de-sac street could evoke, that residents value, are expressed vividly by Allan Jacobs in describing Roslyn Place, a short (250ft[76m]), narrow (60ft[18m]), densely built (14 du per acre [35 per hectare]), and wood-paved [25] cul-de-sac in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: [26] "Step into Roslyn Place and you are likely to sense, immediately, that you are in a place, a special place, a handsome place, a safe place, a welcoming place, a place where you might wish to live." "narrowness and enclosure and intimacy bring a feeling of safety to Roslyn Place... 'Stay on our street' is all the kids have to know". In New Zealand, dead-end streets are sometimes signposted as "No Exit", but are often not signposted at all. The terms 'cul-de-sac' and 'dead end' have the same senses as in Australia. Similarly to Australia, residential cul-de-sacs with bulbous ends are often suffixed with "Place", abbreviated to "Pl" on street signs. In recent times, the critical focus in new Irish fiction has been on writers who explore millennial dilemmas, such as Sally Rooney and Naoise Dolan. But alongside these novelists have emerged superbly accomplished short-story writers such as Wendy Erskine and Danielle McLaughlin, whose first published works draw on many years of rich lived experience. Louise Kennedy can confidently join their ranks with her dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection, The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac.

How much agency does a person have, especially in moments of turmoil, is the question at the heart of Kennedy’s first volume of short stories, set in a contemporary Ireland divided by wealth and education. Nelson, Diana (2004-03-21). "Shadyside's wooden street paves its way to greatness | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette". Post-gazette.com . Retrieved 2016-07-16. Dead end" is also understood in all varieties of English, but the official terminology and traffic signs include many different alternatives. Some of these are used only regionally. In the United States and other countries, cul-de-sac is often not an exact synonym for dead end and refers to dead ends with a circular end. [1] In Australia and Canada, they are usually referred to as a court when they have a bulbous end.