A classic horror story scenario feared by many involves a pedophile who lives in the urban zone cruising around the city trying to abduct kids by luring them into his car. If there were no dead-end cul de sacs, they would fear that their impressionable young children would accidentally wander into the urban zone and meet threatening criminal elements. This is the way suburban parents would want it.
The way to travel between the two geographically close zones is circular you have to drive all the way around to end up almost in the same place where you were before.
The dead-end streets at the intersection of these two zones create a virtual barrier that prevents immediate passage from the rural spot to the urban spot and the other way around. The cul-de-sacs used in both areas tend to make sure that you can't get from one to the other. It has less crime, less pollution, and better schools. It's rather obvious that the rural zone is not plagued with any of the urban area's problems. Not suprisingly, the absence of traffic makes for a quiet environment that isn't ruined by the persistent sound of many cars coming by. This area has a rural feel that comes from having no major roadways.
There's also a close nearby residential zone that has houses amid lots of green space, lakes, and bike paths. Also, the constant noise generated by the traffic gridlock probably grates on the urban' residents nerves. This area suffers from poverty, crime, bad education, pollution, and the resulting health problems. Furthermore these houses are located near heavily used roadways, industrial sites, and etc. Let's imagine a low-income over-developed residential zone where houses are densely stacked near each other with little backyard space and no green space. Often, two different income developments are situated side by side geographically. I'll use an example of how middle-class and wealthy homeowners use the cul-de-sacs to avoid interaction with the poorer residents of their town. A town full of dead-end streets gives its residents the opportunity to shut each other out. Residential cities fashioned out of cul-de-sacs are divided into exclusive zones whose residents hardly interact with each other. A brief definition of the cul-de-sac is "a dead end street which widens sufficiently at the end to permit an automobile to make a "U" turn." But this rather simple geographical feature has important social ramifications.
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