Went to see a superblock in Barcelona. Given how much they feature as urbanism of the future, they are amazingly simple. Take an intersection, block traffic in all four directions and you have a square. Plant trees, add some tables and benches. That's basically it. Replace cars with trees and don't privatize the resulting space. All you need, and all that is usually missing, is political will.
@festal the interesting thing is: this is what amlost all sqares have looked like just 100 years ago.
I'm 55 and I have, over my lifetime, seen sqares being converted into intersections. It's time to admit that this was wrong.