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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?
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?
Some cities are replacing HPS with LED. Lamps are changed as they break, or by sections.
Barcelona isn’t the type of place to do uniform rollouts.
Sid Meiers’ Civilization wonder completion vibes intensify.
it’s a beautiful city, but those crosswalks are so annoying
where are the trees?
On the sidewalks; hard to see in that light, and the picture might have been taken in autumn or winter, but I replied elsewhere in the thread with a picture showing how many of them there actually are (or just look up pictures with the keyword “eixample” and you’ll find there’s actually quite a bit of green between the blocks.
(And also parks, of course; there’s two of them in the picture right next to the basilica, but, again, in this yellow light you can’t see the green.)
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?
All of it, really; mix of old and new buildings, different styles… And the Eixample (the part in the picture) looks much different from the ground.
general city vibe, can’t remember this specific part in detail to be fair
Too samey and zero trees. I would go crazy without trees and grass!
There are trees on the sidewalks.
Yeah exactly! The designer tried so hard to make it efficient or whatever, but didn’t balance it with nature…
Don’t blame Cerdà. Every block was supposed to have a park or square in it. They were never intended to have buildings on all four sides, three at most, mainly two (in parallel or as an L) or even only one. And then history and economics and politics happened.
Sounds eerily similar to what happened with malls in America then. That sucks!
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.
There are parts of the city that are nowhere near as ‘blocky’ as this
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Damn they still didn’t finish building that monstrosity?
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.
I can’t imagine the ancients having the same building codes for wage earners as they do now
Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and other Indus valley civilization cities had grid layouts 4,600 years ago; Egypt used grid layouts around the same time; Babylon, 15th century BCE China, classical Greece and Rome, Teotihuacan… turns out that grid layouts have been the go-to for planned cities pretty much since people came up with the idea of planning cities. 🤷♂️
This is only Eixample, the entire city does not look like this.
Looks sick on monochrome e-ink.
I really love St Grada Familia, such a unique cathedral!
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.
cathedral
Basilica, technically. As I understand it you can only have one cathedral per city, for some bureaucratic and / or religious reason, and Barcelona already had one. 🤷♂️
Hmm, interesting, I thought a basilica was an additional designation for a cathedral, I didn’t know they could be stand alone. But I think you can only have one cathedral per bishop?
Ah, that might indeed be it, cathedral = the seat (of a bishop), and it’s bishops you can’t have too many of in the same place, lest you get a schism.
I think it’s for balancing purposes. It would be too OP if Spain could build as many cathedrals as they wanted in a city and stack culture bonuses.
Am I the only one who thinks the outside is really really ugly
I got some weird reverse vertigo looking up from the inside when I was there, it was insanely high. Incredible place though.
Wow… The outside looks like a Beksinski painting.
Bobby: Where you going?
April: Barcelona.
This city was designed in the NES version of SimCity.
Without question, my favorite city of all time. 🥰🔥
