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Implementing the Supermanzana approach in Barcelona. Critical issues at local and urban level

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  • Jacopo Scudellari
  • Luca Staricco
  • Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone

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To improve neighbourhood liveability and urban sustainability, Barcelona is seeking to re-organize its urban structure into superblocks, designed to discourage cut-through traffic and promote multiple uses of street space. Despite its potential, this approach is not without its limits, that should be properly taken into account. The implementation of the Supermanzana model in the Poblenou neighbourhood is explored in this paper to analyse its potentialities and constraints. Temporal synchronization between the urban level and the neighbourhood level turns out to be particularly important to reduce conflicts and criticalities.

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  • Jacopo Scudellari & Luca Staricco & Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone, 2020. "Implementing the Supermanzana approach in Barcelona. Critical issues at local and urban level," Journal of Urban Design, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(6), pages 675-696, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjudxx:v:25:y:2020:i:6:p:675-696
    DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2019.1625706
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    1. Martin Scoppa & Rim Anabtawi, 2021. "Connectivity in Superblock Street Networks: Measuring Distance, Directness, and the Diversity of Pedestrian Paths," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-18, December.
    2. Vitale Brovarone, Elisabetta & Staricco, Luca & Verlinghieri, Ersilia, 2023. "Whose is this street? Actors and conflicts in the governance of pedestrianisation processes," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
    3. Željka Jurković & Danijela Lovoković, 2023. "Corridor Planning–Sustainable Planning?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(21), pages 1-16, October.
    4. Alys Solly & Erblin Berisha & Giancarlo Cotella, 2021. "Towards Sustainable Urbanization. Learning from What’s Out There," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-23, April.
    5. Sven Eggimann, 2022. "The potential of implementing superblocks for multifunctional street use in cities," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 5(5), pages 406-414, May.

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