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3 unusual facts about Street hierarchy


Street hierarchy

A clearer record of a stricter hierarchical order of streets appears in surviving and functioning Arabic-Islamic cities that originate in the late first millennium AD such as the Medina of Tunis, Marrakech, Fez and Damascus.

Use of the street hierarchy is a nearly universal characteristic of the "edge city", a roughly post-1970 form of urban development exemplified by places such as Tysons Corner, Virginia, and Schaumburg, Illinois.

His major priorities were increasing the safety of primary school-age children walking to school, and increasing the speed of traffic circulation.



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