The first Green Axis package, Consell de Cent

From superblocks to green axes This spot is not only about one street. It is about the first big Eixample Green Axis package , with Consell de Cent as the most visible street and several perpendicular axes crossing it. That matters because it shows the shift in Barcelona’s strategy. Instead of only creating superblocks as bounded areas, the city started redesigning whole street corridors as calmer, greener, pedestrian-priority axes. Consell de Cent is the main example, but the concept becomes clearer when you also look at the crossing streets and the small squares created where they meet. A s…