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Figure 2: Extensive tree plantings along car-free streets will help reduce summer temperatures.

Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona. (O’Sullivan, 2020)

equipped with drinking will reduce summer The Guiding Principles
fountains (Researcher, temperatur es. We need to rethink cities
2020). According to a 2019 around the four guiding
study published in the
4. The city could free up journal Environment principles that are the key
to 70% of its current International, a full building blocks of hyperlocal
road space for active realization of the neighbourhood. These are:
travel & recreation Barcelona city’s 503-block 1. ECOLOGY - for a green
space if it covers its plan could prevent 667 and sustainable city;
whole surface area in premature deaths per
superblocks (O’Sullivan, year (O’Sullivan, 2020). 2. PROXIMITY - to live with
2020), slashing air Figure 3 shows how reduced distance to other
pollution, carbon the intersections of activities;
emissions & noise Barcelona’s Eixample
pollution in the process district could be 3. SOLIDARITY - to create
(Researcher, 2020). redesigned to create links between people;
and
5. Expanded tree cover green plazas.

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