City planners in Barcelona are rethinking the way we approach urban development and coming up with solutions for congestion and its effects, according to a video report by Vox. The idea revolves around the concept of a “superblock,” clustering several blocks together and closing them off to major forms of traffic to create more space and access to pedestrians and cyclists. Food for thought, Cairo. (watch, runtime 5:31)
Barcelona experimenting with superblock urban design