Discussion about the path towards 15 minute cities. Post examples and discuss about how to make this a reality!
From Wikipedia: The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city. This approach aims to reduce car dependency, promote healthy and sustainable living, and improve wellbeing and quality of life for city dwellers.
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The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighborhood - “cars are not welcome here”.
While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?
A Traditional City Primer (and how modern cities are utterly broken, and even New Urbanism doesn't fix the core issue)
The Traditional City simply refers to the pattern of development that human civilization has built in for millenia.
15min-City | platform allows you to see maps showing how close parts of each major city is worldwide to being a 15-min city
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13859498
I'll note that in the US, their urban area definition includes a lot of outlying and substantially unpopulated areas which fall within county boundaries; these areas tend to show up as having long travel times to services.
The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point - Cory Doctorow
Forthcoming in the May 2023 issue of Locus Magazine
One of the more baffling events of the first quarter of 2023 was the mass protest in Oxford (England, not Mississippi) against the “15-minute city pledge,” a movement to get city councils to strive for cities where each neighborhood is a walkable place, with most amenities (groceries, schools, health care, employers, leisure activities) located within a pleasant 15-minute walk from your door.
The 15-minute city is an extremely inoffensive and commonsense idea, and moreover, Oxford is basically already a 15-minute city, because it is a medieval city, with a street-plan to match, anchored around a massive university campus (university campuses everywhere are pretty much all 15-minute cities).
So it’s weird that a bunch of people showed up to protest it, chanting slogans and waving signs decrying the World Economic Forum, the Great Reset, imaginary “climate lockdowns,” and “eating bugs.”
In America, this is called “the paranoid style in American politics.” In the UK, they ha
Gone are the days when designers made a splash with a shimmering new building torquing this way and that. The season’s debuts forge links to regional designs and new connections.
Gone are the days when designers made a splash with a shimmering new building torquing this way and that. The season’s debuts forge links to regional designs and new connections.
This article touches on some of the problems of downtown areas but focused on architectural changes that might lure people back. It's less theory and more implementation within the existing system.
How This Car-Free Neighborhood Unlocks Sustainable Cities
This video is an exploration of Culdesac Tempe , a 5-minute city located in Arizona.
From LinkedIn: Building the first car-free neighborhood from scratch in the U.S.
Feminism and the 15 minute city
The benefits of 15 minute cities, where amenities are within easy reach for urban life, are gaining traction around the world. Stephanie Bertolo, Associate at Springboard Policy, a public policy research and advisory firm in Canada, explores what this idea means for women in particular.
We paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Here are a few ways people around North America are taking paradise back.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11597120
This is an article that dates back from 2019 but I think it's pretty relevant still.
The Secret to Japan's Great Cities
Not Just Bikes dives into how urban planning makes a good neighborhood.
Watch ad free here: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-secret-to-japans-great-cities
The '15-minute city' might not be realistic for North America, researchers find
This is hilarious. It essentially says that fifteen minute cities aren't feasible in North America because the cities weren't built with fifteen minute cities in mind.
The famous city’s £10bn megaproject to build European answer to Dubai | World | News
A huge investment project is set to transform one of Europe's most famous cities and will include a beach resort with five-star hotels, casino, marina, and the country's first-ever residential skyscraper.
Ugh, people downvoting without reading. Basically they want to build a tourism hotspot and they're talking about making it a walking city. The Dubai is more about what their aspirations are. Though I'm not sure how that couples with rich entitled people. But given it would all be built on an abandoned airport, it makes sense to not waste space on roads and parking.
What if we gave it back to nature?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16768838
Before / After. Avenue Daumesnil, Paris.
From https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1dkyifx/before_after_avenue_daumesnil_paris/
Modern transport for short distance
My strong belief is this type of transport is what we really need to adopt en masse.
It can carry 2 adults or 1 adult and 2 kids, has enough boot space to do your shopping, and protects you from the elements (which is the #1 issue with bicycles).
If there was a way these could be mass produced so they are cheap enough for people to justify.. that would be a game changer.
What are the essential services you need in your local neighborhood?
What is essential for you to have nearby? I can think of groceries, fresh produce, haircut/salon, a couple restaurants, schools, etc. Those are the obvious ones. What else are you looking for, such as a flower shop?
