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20-minute neighbourhoods
Progressive city design from down under: https://theconversation.com/people-love-the-idea-of-20-minute-neighbourhoods-so-why-isnt-it-top-of-the-agenda-131193
The 20-minute neighbourhood is all about ‘living locally’ – giving people the ability to meet most of their everyday needs within a 20-minute walk, cycle or local public transport trip of their home.
This planning idea has gained Melbourne recognition in international planning circles. For example, Singapore’s recent Land Transport Master Plan 2040 is based on shaping the city and its transport systems to achieve 20-minute towns within a 45-minute city. Officials who prepared the report have acknowledged to one of us Melbourne’s leadership with the concept.
The concept is not about travel by car. It is about active transport (walking, cycling) and the use of public transport. The goal is that this combination of modes would offer a reasonably sized catchment area in which people, jobs and services, including recreational opportunities and nature, are accessible.
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20mins? How about a 15min UK town ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-56406943
www.bit.ly/ConnectedIpswich
Goes abit wrong when they bring 15mins by driving maps into the mix,but the rest makes some sense
This is just a new name for good urban planning.
Unfortunately, we don't do good urban planning very often because there's very little incentive for the private sector to do anything other than maximise profit (which means building nothing but the most profitable developments), and the public sector lacks the resources to provide proper social and economic infrastructure (or compel developers to do so).
Expect towns and cities to have increasingly hollowed-out high streets to add to the stock of existing brownfield land in many places while 'cookie-cutter' car-dependent estates continue to be bolted on to the perimeter.