Last summer, I attended Leadership+Design, an extremely edifying weeklong program centered around leading and, wait for it, designing. Each year, L+D picks one problem pertaining to the local community and pawns it off on the campers. Making it our responsibility to clean up a communal mess in two weeks time: that’s what I call, “the power of delegation!” This year, the camp took place in a full-blown hipster studio called MakerHaus; located in an equally hipster area known as Freemont, Seattle. Accordingly, our assigned problem question was, “how might we improve transportation in the Seattle, Freemont area?” Long story short: we did a lot of research, asked a lot of questions, and came up with the idea of building an app that notifies a bus if your 1-3 minutes late, ultimately helping you catch it! We even got to present our app to the mayor’s assistant, city council, and Seattle Metropolitan Bus Transportation committee. It was pretty cool! (We also came up with the unconventional idea of implementing Google’s Shweeb, but this idea turned out to be unfeasible for a number of reasons.) After a week’s worth of full-indulgence in “transportation” and “city layouts” I came to appreciate the little things: the curbs between bike and car lanes, well built intersections, even the regulated parking distance away from the curb of blabedy blah inches! For this reason, I was absolutely blown away by the awesome urban planning in Spain! However, the illustrious question remains: Between Barcelona and Seville who takes the cake as the URBAN PLANNING KING?
In this corner, we have a bustling modern metropolis! With a prodigious population of 1.621 million, it’s big, with awe-inspiring ocean front property, its premium, and with an iconic radical like Gaudi raising the bar for the whole place, its certainly not resting on its laurels anytime soon, its more than just a bunch of buildings because it is BAR-CA-LONAAAAA!
And in this corner, weighing in with 702,355 citizens, the world’s largest gothic structure, and certainly the most couples making out in public places. We have the archaically sumptuous city of SE-VILLEEEEE!
BIKES ANYONE CAN USE
 Bikes in Barcelona can be borrowed at any point and dropped off at any other location. |
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 Bikes in Seville are the same as Barcelona with an added bonus of being able to use a credit card so no need to “join” the system. |
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WALKING STREETS
 Amazing walking streets throughout Barcelona. They are organized in a grid pattern that looks a lot like the tread of a shoe:
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 Seville’s walking streets were designed to keep pedestrians cool in the heat of summer. |
PIAZZAS
 Every piazza in Barcelona has a restaurant taking advantage of the outdoor space. |
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 Piazzas in Seville are so beautiful, you feel like you are on a movie set! |
BOULEVARDS
 This boulevard at sunset in Barcelona was spectacular with the Arc de Triumph in the background. |
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 Seville paved its boulevards so beautifully they looked like they were tiled! |
PARKS
 This park in Barcelona was super fancy! There were even bubbles the size of Tuck floating around to add to the ambiance! |
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 Every Seville park was gardened beautifully and had at least one fountain! |
STREET LIGHTS
 Really ornate street lights line all the boulevards in Barcelona. |
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 This streetlight in Seville is ginormous but looks tiny next to the cathedral! |
ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION
 Gondolas take folks to various vistas around Barcelona. |
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 Seville’s main boulevard in the historic downtown makes way for a electric train for commuting. |
Seven categories, (come on people) no ties, who wins? You decide! (By the way, if nobody votes five days from now, I will just post my personal opinion and be automatically right! So either way, this is a win-win situation. But seriously, I would love to hear your opinion! There are no right or wrong answers. Again, unless nobody votes. Then I am right by default. 🙂
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