Eggimann

English Etymology en de Eggimann. Proper noun en Swiss German. en https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/03/barceolona-style-superblocks-a-surprising-number-of-cities-greener/ Anthropocene Magazine Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric 2022-03-08 Sarah DeWeerdt “For many cities, the urban layout allows similar urban re-design strategies, even if the city is not a perfect model of the grid-like layout,” says Sven Eggimann, a researcher focusing on sustainable urban planning at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf, who conducted the analysis. Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world. https://web.archive.org/web/20221020195225/https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/03/barceolona-style-superblocks-a-surprising-number-of-cities-greener/