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minus-squareStamets@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoFrom 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.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoThat sounds like a reasonable explanation, but I’d have thought that Barcelona was laid out far before the advent of modern city planning.
minus-squareGissaMittJobblinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoEixample was built in the mid-1800s iirc, and they did put some thought into its construction.
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.
That sounds like a reasonable explanation, but I’d have thought that Barcelona was laid out far before the advent of modern city planning.
Eixample was built in the mid-1800s iirc, and they did put some thought into its construction.