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Barcelona has some unique advantages getting started on this plan, in that a lot of it was built before cars, and a lot of it was built on a simple grid.
The district of Eixample — where the superblock plan is based — was designed in 1859 in this repetitive grid structure by this guy, Ildefons Cerdá.
He basically invented the word for “urbanization” when he laid out this grid plan for Barcelona that evenly distributed resources like schools and hospitals.
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