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Hm, i find this kinda hard to port over to a typical chaotic/radial european city. In Moscow, for example, there are wide radial and circular roads, from which
by Artlav 10y ago
Hm, i find this kinda hard to port over to a typical chaotic/radial european city.
In Moscow, for example, there are wide radial and circular roads, from which branches of small roads diffuse into the meat of the city under pretty much every angle.
Any attempts to rope "superblocks" off would likely collapse the traffic completely - there aren't any alternative roads like a grid would have.
- andrepd 10y agoI think the idea is to apply this to grid based cities, like the kind predominant in the US, rather than to "chaotic" city plans, like in most old European cities. Barcelona is in many ways atypical of large European historic cities, in that regard.
- 13of40 10y agoHaving spent time in both cities, I don't think the residential urban areas of Moscow have the same problem as Barcelona does. If you look closely between all of those Brezhnev era apartment blocks, you'll find that the soviets packed them with green space, playgrounds, etc. If anything, Moscow is short on parking lots. (edit: Not advocating tearing up the playgrounds for parking lots.)
- Grue3 10y agoIn Moscow, and other Soviet cities there are "superblocks" already. It's called "microraion" [1]. A huge block of apartment buildings with a ring of driveways around every building, and a lot of shared spaces like playgrounds and such. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict