{"id":14998,"date":"2019-12-21T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T11:58:04","slug":"safer-streets-for-children-the-superblock-model-of-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/blog\/safer-streets-for-children-the-superblock-model-of-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Safer streets for children: the Superblock model of Barcelona."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard about \u201cSuperblocks\u201d or how is Barcelona taking city streets back from cars?\u00a0&#8220;Super block&#8221; is an urban design concept aiming to minimize the presence of cars in city centers.<\/p>\n<h2>How to respond to the city&#8217;s scarcity of green spaces, pollution, noise and traffic accident.<\/h2>\n<p>Superblocks are being introduced with the aim of responding to the city&#8217;s scarcity of green spaces, its high levels of pollution, environmental noise and traffic accident rates.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15011 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191221_superblocks-model-barcelona-1-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" title=\"\">It consists on taking 9 square city blocks and closing off the inside to thorough traffic. So the activity inside and around this bigger block could be the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buses, big freight trucks- or any vehicles that are trying to get from one part of town to the next- have to drive around the perimeter.<\/li>\n<li>Inside the superblock, the speed limit is kept to 10 kilometers per hour- and curbside parking it replaced by underground parking. You wind up with streets-cape for markets, outdoor games, and events.<\/li>\n<li>Kind of a pleasant streets-cape, where people can walk around and mingle and do things without having to pay attention to cars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard about \u201cSuperblocks\u201d or how is Barcelona taking city streets back from cars?\u00a0&#8220;Super block&#8221; is an urban design concept aiming to minimize the presence of cars in city centers. How to respond to the city&#8217;s scarcity of green spaces, pollution, noise and traffic accident. Superblocks are being introduced with the aim of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[796],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-en","tag-sostenibilidad-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}