15 Minute City

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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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15min-City | platform allows you to see maps showing how close parts of each major city is worldwide to being a 15-min city (whatif.sonycsl.it)

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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.

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[–] runwaylights@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This can give you an indication, but it has flaws. For example I live in Utrecht and this map counts a lot of empty farmers land as parts of Utrecht. So in the overview it looks as if Utrecht has bad accessibility, but if you zoom in and take a look at the actual urban areas you'll see that they have very good access to services.

If you look at Paris for example, most regions they count as city are indeed urban areas.

Also it counts Ijsselstein en Nieuwegein as parts of Utrecht, even though they are separate cities. But I get why they did that.

[–] teegus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

The definition of services also differs I guess.. I live right by lots of trails but have bad access to "outdoor activities".

[–] ECB@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Vienna has the same issue. There are a bunch of big parks/farmland on the outskirts (but within the city limits).

In the parts where people actually live, it generally is fantastic.