Rethinking roads as public spaces – what NZ cities can learn from Barcelona’s ‘superblock’ urban design
- Written by Simon Kingham, Professor of Human Geography, University of Canterbury
Shutterstock/StanislavskyiNew Zealand is one of the most car-centric countries in the world. With the exception of the capital Wellington, New Zealand cities have some of the highest rates of car ownership globally.
In central Auckland, roads occupy 18% of all land and a further 25% of land is car parks.
Ask people what “public space”...
