Suburban street design has driven emissions since WWII, study suggests

Half of all Americans live in the suburbs. For decades, planners and policymakers have blamed suburban sprawl's environmental and social costs on one thing: distance. The farther people live from city centers, the more they drive, the more carbon they emit and the more disconnected they become from one another. However, new research by Arianna Salazar-Miranda, assistant professor of urban planning and data science at the Yale School of the Environment, suggests that the design of suburban neighborhoods deserves far more blame than it has received.