1 June

Cars destroyed city life. Barcelona is just one city fighting back. This is what cities used to be like. Now they’re loud, the air is filthy, and vehicles dominate everything. When Bathurst launched a ‘Streets as Shared Spaces’ program to make minor changes to reduce the dominance of cars, you’d have thought the world was coming to an end. Ditto for the 15-minute city idea, which is designed to prevent the need for so much moving around by locating the things people need near where they live. Social media loons and the Pauline Hansons of the world turned it into some ludicrous conspiracy about locking people in their suburbs.