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= **BARCELONA - A WALKING SPACE** =

==== Barcelona is the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain, with a population of 1.6 million. About five million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics and also many international sport torunaments. Barcelona's city-building remains one of the best models in the world. Barcelona was a fitting location for the second Global Smart City Expo/Congress, it was about urban technologies, but more importantly Barcelona remind how smart the fundamentals are when it comes to making great cities. ====



=The wide avenues and boulevards of Cerda's Plan give ample room for multi-modal infrastructure. Walking has long been a priority, as illustrated by five centuries of "rambling" on La Rambla, one of the best people streets in the world. Cerda's l'Eixample plan made walking enjoyable almost everywhere, fifty percent of all street space is dedicated to walking space, with the other fifty percent for all other forms like cars, bikes, buses, etc. Urban biking is growing fast in Barcelona, spurred on by the locals only bikeshare system, and very simple bike lane approaches to improve bike safety. When the city has incorporated separated bike lanes, it’s taken from the fifty percent that's for the rest of traffic, not from the walking half. =



====Barcelona gives the citizen many choices to move around the city, because of it urban form, the densities and mix of use, like walking, biking and transit. Which makes easier a multimodal city, with everything compact and close. ====

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