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423R_Scaling the superblock model to city level in Barcelona? Learning from recent policy impact evaluations
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Are you interested in how removing traffic affects urban areas?
Our debate today works with the article titled Scaling the superblock model to city level in Barcelona? Learning from recent policy impact evaluations from 2022, by Jaime Benavides, Sabah Usmani, and Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, published in the Contesti journal.
This is a great preparation to our next interview with Ben Wolf in episode 424 talking about one street in New York that reduced its car traffic and its effects on its environment.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an urban model that curtails vehicle traffic and reclaims public space for pedestrians and greenery. This article investigates Barcelona’s Superblock model with its complex outcomes, suggesting that neighbourhood level policies must be paired with a holistic metropolitan mobility plan for traffic to be effectively reduced city-wide.
Find the article through this link.
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
- No.216 - Interview with Sara Stace about the needed urban paradigm shift in transport planning
- No.395R - Car free cities
- No.396 - Interview with Lior Steinberg about car free cities
You can find the transcript through this link
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