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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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I feel like nobody thinks about the logistics involved with these things.
Ok, so what’s bothering you about it? Are you gunna elaborate?
Not the person you're referring to, but I'll take a crack at it
The one of the issues is a complete lack of suitable soil to grow all the stuff that's in the diagram. Soil was stripped and compacted to create a parking lot.
You have to break up the pavement, haul it all out, and take it to a recycler or Landfill.
There is a lot of planning of where things go, how big they will be.
We have a pond so we have to design that
It also takes time for trees to grow to the size we want them
"It would have to be built" seems fairly obvious and I wouldn't call that a logistical issue.
No, but the point I'm getting at is that it's easy to make a conceptual drawing, but there's a lot of effort, time and money that goes into making that drawing a reality.
Without consultation and community buy in you also risk those efforts falling flat on their face. If I build a 'granola' (sorry) center in the middle of MAGA country, it's not going to do well.
So we've arrived at Gollum's "we're not in decent places" moment in the discourse.
I'm not sure I follow