Editing Pedestrian zone (section)

===COVID-19 pandemic===
During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] in 2020, some cities had made the pedestrianization of additional streets to encourage [[social distancing]] and in many cases to provide extra rooms for restaurants to serve food on patios extended into the newly available spaces. In the United States, [[New York City]] closed up to {{convert|100|mile|km}} of streets to cars across the city.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spivack |first1=Caroline |title=New York will open up to 100 miles of streets to pedestrians: The move will help New Yorkers socially distance amid the coronavirus pandemic |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2020/4/27/21238276/nyc-coronavirus-opens-100-miles-streets-pedestrians-biking |publisher=Curbed |date=27 April 2020}}</ref> In [[Madrid]], [[Spain]], the city pedestrianized {{convert|19|km|mile}} of streets and {{convert|235000|sqm|acre}} of spaces in total.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Domingo |first1=Marta |title=Madrid peatonalizará 29 calles los fines de semana y festivos y abrirá los parques de los distritos mañana |url=https://www.abc.es/espana/madrid/abci-coronavirus-madrid-peatonalizara-23-calles-fines-semana-y-festivos-y-abrira-parques-distritos-manana-202005071214_noticia.html |publisher=ABC Madrid |date=7 May 2020}}</ref> The COVID-19 pandemic gave also birth to proposals for radical change in the organisation of the city, in particular [[Barcelona]], being the pedestrianisation of the whole city and the proposal of an inversion of the concept of ''sidewalk'' two elements of the Manifesto for the Reorganisation of the city, written by architecture and urban theorist Massimo Paolini and signed by 160 academics and 300 architects. <ref>{{Cite news|last=Paolini|first=Massimo|date=20 April 2020|title=Manifesto for the Reorganisation of the City after COVID19|language=en-GB|url=https://www.degrowth.info/en/2020/05/manifesto-for-the-reorganisation-of-the-city-after-covid-19/|access-date=1 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Argemí|first=Anna|date=8 May 2020|title=Por una Barcelona menos mercantilizada y más humana|language=es|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/05/06/alterconsumismo/1588769208_267470.html|access-date=11 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Maiztegui|first=Belén|date=18 June 2020|title=Manifiesto por la reorganización de la ciudad tras el COVID-19|language=es|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/05/06/alterconsumismo/1588769208_267470.html|access-date=11 May 2021}}</ref>