Worth mentioning that the meandering streets that annoy people in the suburbs are a classic Christopher Alexander architecture goal. Minimizing cross-town high-speed car traffic is intended to make areas more walkable, shifting the balance from automobiles to humans.

Obviously, suburbs categorically fail to accomplish the strategic goal behind creating windy streets; it's almost impossible to live in one without a car. Suburban city planners probably were not inspired by Alexander. But they are safer places for kids to play in the streets than Chicago blocks, where residents often lobby for speed bumps to deal with speeding cars.

Suburbs bad. Windy streets? Maybe not so much.