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Re:Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments by diggan on Friday June 21, 2024 @05:10PM (#40753859)
Barcelona can basically not grow horizontally anymore, being blocked in from all sides and all the ground is already covered by something.

So the alternative is to build vertically, but that also comes with trade-offs as the streets get less sun and city dwellers will be able to see less sky.

People on the internet will do anything but read before spouting their obvious solutions on the internet.

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Re:Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments by TacticalCoder on Friday June 21, 2024 @05:35PM (#40754070)
> So the alternative is to buy vertically...

And the superblocks in Barcelona are already quite high and suffocating.

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Re:Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments by diggan on Saturday June 22, 2024 @06:23AM (#40757848)
The "superblocks" (superillas) in Barcelona has little to do with height. I think you're referring to just the Cerdà-designed blocks that has been around for a long time. The "superblocks" in Barcelona is about reducing the traffic running through all the blocks, but has little to do with the height of the buildings in the blocks.
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