Wakanda of the film Black Panther, with its perfectly natural environment and its extremely advanced and clean technology has become a source of inspiration for the Urbanists.

The Real-Life Possibilities of Black Panther’s Wakanda, According to Urbanists and City Planners

…In Wakanda’s capital city, for example, pedestrians walk along commerce-filled streets that are car-free except for the occasional appearance of small buslike shuttles. It’s quite similar to the Woonerf Concept, an approach to public space design started in the Netherlands in the 1970s. “It’s this idea that streets in the cities should be primarily devoted to pedestrians,” says Yonah Freemark, a PhD student in city planning at MIT who runs the transit website The Transport Politic.

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