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I live in a European city! A city in which I could live my entire life without using delivery services and without stepping further than 15 minutes from my fron
by throwaway22032 5y ago
I live in a European city! A city in which I could live my entire life without using delivery services and without stepping further than 15 minutes from my front door. Okay, maybe 20.
I agree that by that metric basically any European capital or major city has loads of this.
That's not what I understand the '15-minute city' concept to mean. The video posted is a good example of it. It seems to be centred more about fundamentally rewriting the way I live my life (e.g. get rid of the office, try to discourage me from going outside of that 15-minute zone by encouraging walking over all other forms of transport including trains/buses).
It's weird because I've just re-read my initial comment and I'm just re-typing what I said. Is there something confusing there?
Optionality is tautologically great, but discouraging people to travel is not that.
My dentist, my general practitioner, my gym, my favourite restaurant(s), my friends, the food store(s) I use are all in different parts of town, and I believe that hugely enriches my life. The job I used to have was about 30-45min away, and after work I would then explore _that_ area.
I could go to the ones next door, but then I'd only ever go next door. Why would I want to only ever go next door?
I guess basically I'm just reading American shit and thinking "what's all this nonsense about 15 minutes? what you want is a dense urban city with public transport".
I actually want my city and its' trains to expand out so that it's a 4 hour city and I can tap a card and get the tube to Manchester and wander about there, lol.
- dahart 5y ago> I actually want my city and its' trains to expand out so that it's a 4 hour city and I can tap a card and get the tube to Manchester and wander about there, lol. That’s what I want in the US. Unfortunately we don’t have a city-to-city train system to speak of, Amtrak isn’t even close, and it doesn’t seem to be on the horizon either. I don’t really know, but part of the issue may be that cities in the west and midwest aren’t yet big enough and numerous enough and dense enough to support the financing for a better train system.