The fused Grid represents the synthesis of two traditional North American approaches to residential neighborhood planning: the traditional, nineteenth-century grid, and the curvilinear pattern of looped streets and cul-de-sacs of modern suburbia. The goal of the fused grid is to provide a balance between vehicular and pedestrian movement, and to create safe, sociable streets and easy connectivity to community facilities. These attributes are achieved while retaining the land use and infrastructure advantages of conventional suburban plans, compared to the traditional grid advocated by New Urbanism. Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ... New urbanism is an urban design movement that became very popular beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s. ...
The fused grid consists of a large-scale grid of collector streets, carrying moderate to high-speed car traffic. The blocks are roughly 40 acres in size (about 1,300 feet by 1,300 feet). Within each block, the layout of residential streets in the form of crescents and cul-de-sacs eliminates through traffic. In addition, a continuous, open-space pedestrian path system provides direct access to parks, public transit, retail and community facilities. Residents can cross a block on foot in approximately five minutes. The most intensive land uses such as schools, community facilities, high-density residential uses, and retail are located in the center of the plan, reached by twinned arterial roads. The plan provides efficient vehicular traffic, without sacrificing safety and convenience for pedestrians
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