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I believe all cities people love to visit were built organically by huge numbers if individual actors doing what they thought best with their part of it. Or ar

• 13of40 4y ago
  Barcelona gets a lot of love despite most of it being a very regular grid of city blocks.
  • Aqwis 4y ago
    Eixample is alright, and supposedly a decent place to live, but the main touristy part of Barcelona is the old town, Barri Gòtic, which is a typical chaotic maze of streets. Eixample receives a lot of visitors too, of course, but not so much, I think, because it's very charming in itself, but because it makes up a large part of the inner city and thus contains a lot of tourist attractions (including Sagrada Familia and other buildings by Gaudí) and shopping streets. Also, once you go beyond Eixample (except to the east) the city's not a regular grid anymore. In the end, Eixample and other, newer neighbourhoods built on a grid probably represent a (substantial, of course) minority of the city.
• mtalantikite 4y ago
  Paris could be considered planned, at least a large part of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_...