An American Prototopia 1 : or Peachtree City as an Inadvertent , Sustainable Solution to Urban Sprawl
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Peachtree City is a city with a secondary transportation network, known as the path system. This paper seeks to determine why the path system is so successful and whether there are fundamental spatial, configurational properties which underpin its achievement. This paper examines the axial-line network of paths as a distinct network then as part of the larger, combined system of both paths and roads.
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