Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

Re:Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back fr... by splitrocket on Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:17PM (#12239973)

I lived in Hyde Park, Chicago.

I now live in Brooklyn, NY.

Hyde Park is an extremely poor example of a walkable neighborhood. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, however, is substantially more walkable.

I would argue orders of magnitude, but walkscore.com says it's 76 vs 99. Perhaps the scale is logrithmic?

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Re:Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back fr... by superuser2 on Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:33PM (#12240030)

I don't disagree that successful dense, walkable neighorhoods exist. I could have phrased my post better.

What I take issue with is the position advanced in this thread that raising the hassle of owning/operating a car in places like Hyde Park is a good idea, that it will somehow transform those neighborhoods to be more like New York.

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