Are Barcelona’s superblocks a radical challenge to the neoliberal city?
Barcelona has been subjected to international attention due to its proposal of urban transformation in the Eixample district through the creation of “supermanzanas” (superblocks). Combining nine of the blocks proposed by Ildefons Cerdà in the 1859 plan (very different from those realised) they are meant to reduce car traffic in the streets and squares inside the superblock’s perimeter, confining it to the perimetral streets, in order to create a solution for the serious problems deriving from pollution, the near absence…