Via Dan Hill's excellent (if extensive :-) Slowdown Papers I learnt of Paris' plans for a "15 minute city":
This simple notion — that all your basic everyday needs, from education to commerce to healthcare to culture and so on, are located within 15 minutes walk or bike of your front door
That seems to me like a good tool for thinking about how to make the city more walkable, and to explore how the city might adapt to include more local, distributed approaches (particularly post-pandemic and with an increasing climate crisis).
A few years back, the Liverpool Architectural Society ran the Integrated City Project, which had some echoes of this. I'm not sure much of it ever ended up online, and now all I can find is my blog post about it.
However, it does give us this interesting map of 32 areas of the city, which we could take as a starting point to see how we fare at the moment.
Lots of these areas have existing focal points for shops, libraries, etc. Maybe we can identify gaps that we can work to fill, or barriers that make it hard for the flow of people between neighbouring areas. Or maybe we'll realise we already have a 15-minute city, and we just need to think about it differently.
Via Dan Hill's excellent (if extensive :-) Slowdown Papers I learnt of Paris' plans for a "15 minute city":
That seems to me like a good tool for thinking about how to make the city more walkable, and to explore how the city might adapt to include more local, distributed approaches (particularly post-pandemic and with an increasing climate crisis).
A few years back, the Liverpool Architectural Society ran the Integrated City Project, which had some echoes of this. I'm not sure much of it ever ended up online, and now all I can find is my blog post about it.
However, it does give us this interesting map of 32 areas of the city, which we could take as a starting point to see how we fare at the moment.
Lots of these areas have existing focal points for shops, libraries, etc. Maybe we can identify gaps that we can work to fill, or barriers that make it hard for the flow of people between neighbouring areas. Or maybe we'll realise we already have a 15-minute city, and we just need to think about it differently.