The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

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Having grown up in the south of England, Jane went on to study Arabic at university, travelling extensively in the Middle East and North Africa before putting down roots in Paris. Her work includes short stories, poetry, reportage and radio drama. O. Dag. "George Orwell: Politics and the English Language" (in Russian). Orwell.ru . Retrieved 2013-04-16. 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) Aristotle (1962) [335-323 BC]. The Politics. Translated by Sinclair, T. A. New York: Penguin. Book VII, sec. xi. 422.

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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 ] This debut collection of short stories by Irish author Louise Kennedy will be published in April. I read it over the course of a couple of weeks, and the further I got into it, the more I grew to love it. Inferential evidence of their earlier use can also be drawn from the text of a German architect, Rudolf Eberstadt, that explains their purpose and utility: [6] FHA (July 1, 1936). Planning Neighbourhoods for Small Houses. Technical Bulletin. Vol.5. Washington DC. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Dumbaugh, Eric & Rae, Robert (2009). "Safe Urban Form: Revisiting the Relationship Between Community Design and Traffic Safety". Journal of the American Planning Association. 75 (3): 309–329. doi: 10.1080/01944360902950349. S2CID 153379995.In the UK, their prior existence is implied by the Public Health Act 1875 which banned their use in new developments. [ citation needed] More generally, the New Urbanism movement has offered criticism of the cul-de-sac and crescent (loop) street types not intended to network with each other. It has been suggested that such street layouts can cause increased traffic on the collector streets. It is recognized that culs-de-sac and looped streets inherently remove car traffic through them and restrict access to residents only. Resident traffic is naturally channelled to minor residential collectors and to arterials that provide inter-neighbourhood and inter-district connectivity. A study, reported in 1990, [35] compared the traffic performance in a 700-acre (2.8km 2; 280ha) development that was laid out using two approaches, one with and the other without hierarchy or cul-de-sac streets. It concluded that the non-hierarchical, traditional layout generally shows lower peak speed and shorter, more frequent intersection delays than the hierarchical pattern. The traditional pattern is not as conducive to long trips as the hierarchical but more conducive to short trips. Local trips in it are shorter in distance but about equivalent in time with the hierarchical layout. A later similar comparative traffic study [31] of about 830 acres (3.4km 2; 340ha) concluded that all types of layouts perform adequately in most land-use scenarios and that a refined hierarchical, dendrite network can improve traffic performance. 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. 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. Gritty, bitter, hard-won. . . Kennedy’s voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric.”— Sunday Times (London)

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This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. ( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Increases in pedestrian and bicycle permeability may result in a displacement of local car trips for short-distance destinations [22] and consequently a reduction in neighbourhood vehicle emissions. The impermeable cul-de-sac not only discourages walking and biking but also increases the length of car trips by the circuitous geometry of the dendrite network structure of which it is a part. Research studies examined the influence of several variables on the amount of car travel that residents of several types of districts recorded. Results vary considerably among them, but there is general agreement on a number of key correlations: [31] [32] a) the wealthier and the larger the family is, the more cars they own, and the more they drive, b) the farther away a family lives from the city centre, and the fewer the jobs in the vicinity, plus a slow bus service, the more they drive, and c) street patterns may add a 10% length to local trips, but the total VKTs are affected more by the "macro" urban than the "micro" neighbourhood structure. Alberti, Leon Battista (1966). Rykwert, Joseph (ed.). Ten Books on Architecture. New York: Transatlantic Arts. book IV, ch. V. 75.The desirability of the cul-de-sac street type among home buyers is implied by the evidence that they often pay up to a 20% premium for a home on such a street, according to one study. [12] That could be because there is considerably less passing traffic, resulting in less noise and reduced actual or perceived risk, increasing the sense of tranquility. A survey of residents on three types of streets: cul-de-sac, loop, and through (grid) recorded their preferences among these types. It found that 82% of cul-de-sac residents preferred their own street type, 18% preferred a loop, and 0% the grid. Only 13% of grid street residents preferred their own type and 54% would choose a cul-de-sac. [15] In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise Kennedy reveals how ordinary lives can get caught up in a wider, national drama. Huttenmoser, Marco; Meierhofer, Marie (1995). "Children and Their Living Surroundings for the Everyday Life and Development of Children". Children's Environments. 12 (4): 1–17. School buses can also have a hard time turning around, which means that children who live in a cul-de-sac must often walk to a bus stop on a main through-road. However, recent [ when?] research on obesity and urban planning suggests that to be a possible advantage because it enables children to get daily physical activity. Longer walking distances, however, reduce interest to use buses especially when a car is available. [39] This disincentive to walking to a school bus-stop can be overcome in planned cul-de-sac streets by regulating their maximum length to about 500ft (150m), as was recommended and practiced by R. Unwin and others.

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Nelson, Diana (2004-03-21). "Shadyside's wooden street paves its way to greatness | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette". Post-gazette.com . Retrieved 2016-07-16.Veitch, Jenny; Salmon, Jo; Ball, Kylie (2010). "Individual, social and physical environmental correlates of children's active free-play: a cross-sectional study". Australia International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 7: 11. doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-7-11. PMC 2841089. PMID 20181061. American urban planning, in the 19th and the early 20th centuries, emphasized a grid plan, partly out of extensive reliance on foot, horse and trams for transportation. In such earlier urban development, alleys were included to allow for deliveries of soiled supplies, such as coal, to the rear of houses that are now heated by electricity, piped natural gas or oil. Garland Sunday tells about motherhood gone wrong because of the horror of misogyny in Ireland two generations previously. Class differences explored between Kathy and Orla. Names are brilliantly chosen e.g. Baby Kayleigh. United States [ edit ] A cul-de-sac in Sacramento, California Dead end sign in English and Spanish in Otay Mesa, San Diego 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.

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Brittle things is about a child with autism. This story is told using the mother's inner thoughts and observations of other people's reactions to her son. One of the best descriptions of an Irish pub scene I've read. This collection of short stories is the debut of Louise Kennedy. Each story follows an Irish woman in varying circumstances, giving us a glimpse into their lives, their relationships and the difficulties they face. In many stories the natural world, with its animal appetites and feral, sexual energy, impinges on the urban. A pregnant woman accidentally witnesses her husband commit adultery with an agricultural science student in the lambing shed, shattering her sense of self-worth; while in another story a man shoots a hare that he knows his partner adores: “There was a treacly hole at the front of his head, his eyes were hazel and still.” 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. Good news: Louise Kennedy’s collection of short stories, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac, has won the John McGahern Prize for a debut book of Irish fiction published in 2021.

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A] dark, funny, brilliantly downbeat Irish debut. Bitterness, beauty and a caustic wit colour Kennedy's stories, as the past makes itself unforgettably present in the lives of her vividly drawn characters * Daily Mail * We have, in our medieval towns, showing very commendable methods of cutting up the land. I ought to mention here that to keep traffic out of residential streets is necessary not only in the general interest of the population, but, above all, for the sake of the children, whose health (amongst the working classes) is mainly dependent on the opportunity of moving about in close connection with their dwelling places, without the danger of being run over. In the earlier periods, traffic was excluded from residential streets simply by gates or by employing the cul-de-sac. California uses the phrase Not a Through Street or Not a Through Road to mark roads or road systems that end in culs-de-sac. More recently, No Outlet has been shown on some signs as well (an example being Meyers Avenue south of Eureka Street in the Pine Hills area).