I grew up in the middle of nowhere USA, in a place where my nearest neighbor was a mile away.
Will images like this ever not give me massive anxiety?
This city was designed in the NES version of SimCity.
it's a beautiful city, but those crosswalks are so annoying
Why are there two streets running against the grid?
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.
This part of Barcelona pretty much was the advent of modern city planning.
Eixample was built in the mid-1800s iirc, and they did put some thought into its construction.
I can't tell if they are actual streets, pedestrian-only areas, or bus loading/unloading zones. There look to be structures along them that could be market booths or buses.
That's if you mean the two blocks with the diagonals going through them. If you mean the one in the back that's slightly off-angle from the grid, my guess for that is that the road existed before the modern city did and wasn't removed to create the grid. Or it might be a rail line.
What's up with the blue vs yellow light?
HPS vs LED lamps. LED are blue compared to HPS.
Yeah but why are there two types of lights in one city?
Barcelona isn't the type of place to do uniform rollouts.
Some cities are replacing HPS with LED. Lamps are changed as they break, or by sections.
New vs old.
City planners: hnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggg
Is this the whole city or just the same poster neighborhood again and again? I can't imagine the ancients having the same building codes for wage earners as they do now.
This is only Eixample, the entire city does not look like this.
Without question, my favorite city of all time. 🥰🔥
Damn they still didn't finish building that monstrosity?
I'm kidding, the interior is the most breathtaking space I've encountered. But man it is fuck ugly from the outside, does not fit in with the scenery at all, and is as gaudy as it is Gaudi.
Hoooow can I forget?
The church built 141 years ago makes everything around it boring and droll. Why don't we design and build amazing architecture any more?
It’s certainly unique and all, but a little too “samey” for my liking.
One of the least 'samey' cities in the world imo. To me it felt like every house was looking different when I was visiting
This part specifically? Or the other parts?
general city vibe, can't remember this specific part in detail to be fair
There are parts of the city that are nowhere near as 'blocky' as this
I've been there exactly once in my life.
We were going to a place, which we could see in the distance, so we decided to walk there.
Half an hour walking later the place seemed to still be exactly as far away as when we started and our sense of reality was eroding significantly.
Like others have said, not the whole place is like that, but man, it IS kinda weird.
Too samey and zero trees. I would go crazy without trees and grass!
Yeah exactly! The designer tried so hard to make it efficient or whatever, but didn’t balance it with nature…
I really love St Grada Familia, such a unique cathedral!
Wow... The outside looks like a Beksinski painting.
Just, don't play the organ while you're there.
Is it not voiced for it? Last time I checked, they just had a small portable organ instead of a large installed one.
I got some weird reverse vertigo looking up from the inside when I was there, it was insanely high. Incredible place though.
Am I the only one who thinks the outside is really really ugly
Specifically, this is Eixample
The roads in the old city are much more chaotic.
That aerial view is wild.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere USA, in a place where my nearest neighbor was a mile away.
Will images like this ever not give me massive anxiety?
This city was designed in the NES version of SimCity.
it's a beautiful city, but those crosswalks are so annoying
Why are there two streets running against the grid?
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.
This part of Barcelona pretty much was the advent of modern city planning.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildefons_Cerd%C3%A0
Eixample was built in the mid-1800s iirc, and they did put some thought into its construction.
I can't tell if they are actual streets, pedestrian-only areas, or bus loading/unloading zones. There look to be structures along them that could be market booths or buses.
That's if you mean the two blocks with the diagonals going through them. If you mean the one in the back that's slightly off-angle from the grid, my guess for that is that the road existed before the modern city did and wasn't removed to create the grid. Or it might be a rail line.
What's up with the blue vs yellow light?
HPS vs LED lamps. LED are blue compared to HPS.
Yeah but why are there two types of lights in one city?
Barcelona isn't the type of place to do uniform rollouts.
Some cities are replacing HPS with LED. Lamps are changed as they break, or by sections.
New vs old.
City planners: hnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggg
Is this the whole city or just the same poster neighborhood again and again? I can't imagine the ancients having the same building codes for wage earners as they do now.
This is only Eixample, the entire city does not look like this.
where are the trees?
Sid Meiers' Civilization wonder completion vibes intensify.
detuned saw-wave synth intensifies
Looks sick on monochrome e-ink.
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April: Barcelona.
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Without question, my favorite city of all time. 🥰🔥
Damn they still didn't finish building that monstrosity?
I'm kidding, the interior is the most breathtaking space I've encountered. But man it is fuck ugly from the outside, does not fit in with the scenery at all, and is as gaudy as it is Gaudi.
Hoooow can I forget?
The church built 141 years ago makes everything around it boring and droll. Why don't we design and build amazing architecture any more?
It’s certainly unique and all, but a little too “samey” for my liking.
One of the least 'samey' cities in the world imo. To me it felt like every house was looking different when I was visiting
This part specifically? Or the other parts?
general city vibe, can't remember this specific part in detail to be fair
There are parts of the city that are nowhere near as 'blocky' as this
I've been there exactly once in my life.
We were going to a place, which we could see in the distance, so we decided to walk there.
Half an hour walking later the place seemed to still be exactly as far away as when we started and our sense of reality was eroding significantly.
Like others have said, not the whole place is like that, but man, it IS kinda weird.
Too samey and zero trees. I would go crazy without trees and grass!
Yeah exactly! The designer tried so hard to make it efficient or whatever, but didn’t balance it with nature…