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[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

From Cities Skylines experience it's usually to relieve traffic blocks by providing a direct path to areas/landmarks that have a higher than average traffic load. Not sure why they did it though.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That sounds like a reasonable explanation, but I'd have thought that Barcelona was laid out far before the advent of modern city planning.

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This part of Barcelona pretty much was the advent of modern city planning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildefons_Cerd%C3%A0

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Eixample was built in the mid-1800s iirc, and they did put some thought into its construction.