I could not make the basic premise of this article... Is it that 15-minute cities would limit social mobility?? Is it that congestion pricing would limit social mobility? Am I just trying to make sense of an llm-generated word soup?
Yeah I'm sorry but I can't take someone seriously that believes that Hyperloop will be a viable form of transportation. It's nothing but an idiotic fantasy and that's all it will ever be
Is the premise of 15-minute cities really that every final destination is walkable within 15 minutes or that you can reach everything you need within 15 minutes?
If I live in a big city with good public transport and have most daily need things walkable within 15 minutes and good public transport connections also within 15 minutes then I can benefit from opportunities that are farther away while also having the locality of the rest of the day to day things.
That's what I personally would consider a 15-minute city
This article is the most engineered rage bait I've seen so far. We've got 15 minute cities, COVID, work from home, "who pays for it" for public services, congestion pricing, somehow even NATO and the WHO got mentioned.
Add some outrage over bike paths (for or against) and this post will circulate reddit for weeks!
I think he completely misunderstood 15 minute cities as a concept.
15 min cities mean cities that are mixed use enough that you can get all your needs within 15 mins without a car. Cities like this can be large and typically are extremely well connected, not isolated into enclaves like this person suggests.
> The rise of autonomous vehicles and technologies like hyperloop may make a major difference to the way we travel around cities.
Harvard University Professor of Economics everyone. When discussing new modes of transport the _hyperloop_ is the exemplar. A technology that does not work, can not work, and will never work.
And, of course, no mention of e-bikes which are cheap, proven, and have seen large adoption in my neighborhood at the least. But of course that might have undermined his point.
An curious example where an academic at full-time at Harvard is obviously less qualified than millions of people that live in 15-minute cities all around the world. Maybe he should spend less time researching urban planning, and more time doing field work.
I’m currently living in a Northern European one and the income island thing was solved with city planning: the same area has mix of private and city owned apartment buildings. Some buildings are mix-owned too, so city owns like 50% of the apartments.
Here you’m find a person living on social security and someone with half a million apartment loan, having a neighbourly chat while their kids playtogether in the common courtyard.
> Transport is beginning to change: The rise of autonomous vehicles and technologies like hyperloop may make a major difference to the way we travel around cities
How is it that people just utterly and completely refuse to even try to understand what a 15 minute city actually is lmao. It's not a city where you never leave a 15 minute radius! That's utter nonsense!
Guess what? Chicago and New York are basically already 15 minute cities. And despite having all my daily needs within 15 minutes of my house, I STILL GO ALL OVER THE CITY, ALL THE TIME! because having a grocery store and a school and a doctor in my neighborhood doesn't mean literally every single thing i want to do and every person i want to see is in my neighborhood, nor that I'm not allowed to leave!
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That's what I personally would consider a 15-minute city
Add some outrage over bike paths (for or against) and this post will circulate reddit for weeks!
15 min cities mean cities that are mixed use enough that you can get all your needs within 15 mins without a car. Cities like this can be large and typically are extremely well connected, not isolated into enclaves like this person suggests.
1) cycling 2) walking 3) train 4) cars 5) airplanes
and the frequency could follow an exponential distribution.
Harvard University Professor of Economics everyone. When discussing new modes of transport the _hyperloop_ is the exemplar. A technology that does not work, can not work, and will never work.
And, of course, no mention of e-bikes which are cheap, proven, and have seen large adoption in my neighborhood at the least. But of course that might have undermined his point.
Oh, got it.
Here you’m find a person living on social security and someone with half a million apartment loan, having a neighbourly chat while their kids playtogether in the common courtyard.
instant close
Guess what? Chicago and New York are basically already 15 minute cities. And despite having all my daily needs within 15 minutes of my house, I STILL GO ALL OVER THE CITY, ALL THE TIME! because having a grocery store and a school and a doctor in my neighborhood doesn't mean literally every single thing i want to do and every person i want to see is in my neighborhood, nor that I'm not allowed to leave!