> To me it makes everywhere look the same and kind of boring. You're misunderstanding what a superblock is. The blocks in Barcelona that look the same predate

> To me it makes everywhere look the same and kind of boring. You're misunderstanding what a superblock is. The blocks in Barcelona that look the same predate superblocks. The idea of a superblock -- making an NxN grid of blocks impermeable to through car traffic, basically -- could still be done in other cities with more irregular block patterns. It would be a little more complicated, of course, but it'd still be doable.