traffic.”15 What’s the solution, Detroit? “Many projects planned for residential redevelopment will wipe out obsolete gridiron patterns and replace them with curvilinear systems such as are found in the best of suburban subdivisions.”16 But as a 1963 Traffic Quarterly paper tells us, obsolete, gridded street networks can be a blessing in disguise: “It is obsolescence, however, that can be a blessing, an opportunity to convert whole areas to the needs of man in the large modern city.”17
