Proximity-Based Planning and the “15-Minute City”: A Sustainable Model for the City of the Future

Allam, Zaheer; Moreno, Carlos; Chabaud, Didier; Pratlong, Florent

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2_178-1

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“…Moreno’s ‘15-minute city’ concept is inspired from ‘Chrono-urbanism’, where the aspect of time is believed to be a key factor to consider relative to space [ 10 , 13 ]. That is, the act of placing of different urban amenities and different elements needs to be guided by how much time it would take a walking or a cycling resident to move from one node to the next.…”

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“…While the smart cities concept is still gaining traction, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the emergence of a new urban planning concept—the ’15-minute city’. This city type focuses more on promoting social dimensions, urban proximity, and diversity via increasing use of technologies [ 10 ]. While the ’15-minute city’ concept will be described comprehensively in the next section, it is worth noting that the concept has only been described in the literature since 2016, with authors noting commonalities including social distancing, work-from-home concepts, and reduced travel movements, and the concept is increasingly becoming associated in tandem with the smart city concept in crafting and structuring more liveable and human scale cities [ 11 ].…”

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Unpacking the ‘15-Minute City’ via 6G, IoT, and Digital Twins: Towards a New Narrative for Increasing Urban Efficiency, Resilience, and Sustainability

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Jones

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The ‘15-minute city’ concept is emerging as a potent urban regeneration model in post-pandemic cities, offering new vantage points on liveability and urban health. While the concept is primarily geared towards rethinking urban morphologies, it can be furthered via the adoption of Smart Cities network technologies to provide tailored pathways to respond to contextualised challenges through the advent of data mining and processing to better inform urban decision-making processes. We argue that the ‘15-minute city’ concept can value-add from Smart City network technologies in particular through Digital Twins, Internet of Things (IoT), and 6G. The data gathered by these technologies, and processed via Machine Learning techniques, can unveil new patterns to understand the characteristics of urban fabrics. Collectively, those dimensions, unpacked to support the ‘15-minute city’ concept, can provide new opportunities to redefine agendas to better respond to economic and societal needs as well as align more closely with environmental commitments, including the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 11 and the New Urban Agenda. This perspective paper presents new sets of opportunities for cities arguing that these new connectivities should be explored now so that appropriate protocols can be devised and so that urban agendas can be recalibrated to prepare for upcoming technology advances, opening new pathways for urban regeneration and resilience crafting.

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Unpacking the ‘15-Minute City’ via 6G, IoT, and Digital Twins: Towards a New Narrative for Increasing Urban Efficiency, Resilience, and Sustainability

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“…Moreover, in regard to engineering, research interest is diverse, but such research tends to converge on how engineers could improve machines (including automobiles) to reduce their carbon footprint, particularly machines that are not reliant on non-renewable fuels as electric vehicles are [22]. Similarly, in regard to smart urban mobility, research works on areas such as alternative means of transport, cycling, alternative urban planning models such as the '15-min city concept' [23][24][25], the reduction of private cars in favor of public transport and other areas which would play a significant role in shaping the debate on overall emissions reduction in the transport sector.…”

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“…However, there are possibilities that the attention will extend to bicycles, as these provide people with the ability to abide by health protocols, pursue sustainable pathways, as well as avoid the use of private cars. This will further be influenced by the rethinking of urban planning models such as the aforementioned 15-min city concept [23,25,72].…”

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Research Structure and Trends of Smart Urban Mobility

Allam

Sharifi

2022

Smart Cities

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Mobility is a subject of increasing importance in a time when cities have gained prominence, as they are home to over 56% of the world’s population and generate over 80% of global GDP. Urban planning principles have traditionally been developed to promote urban efficiency and enhance productivity. The emergence of ‘Smart Mobility’ has provided researchers and policy practitioners new ways to understand and plan cities. With rapid urbanization growth and the sustained mobility challenges faced in most global cities, this paper sets forth to understand and map the evolution of the concept of ‘Smart Urban Mobility’ through a bibliometric analysis and science mapping techniques using VOSviewer. In total, 6079 articles were retrieved from the Web of Science database over 5 decades, from 1968 to 2021, and divided into four sub-periods, namely 1968 to 2010, 2011 to 2015, 2016 to 2019, and 2020 to 2021. The paper provides a better understanding of the thematic focus and associated trends of smart mobility beyond technical issues related to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), where due to diverse dynamics, such as unprecedented growth and advancement in technologies, attention has extended to incorporating the impacts of the application of different technologies in urban mobility as well as associated fields. This paper further identifies major sources, authors, publications, and countries that have made more contributions to the development of this field. The findings of this study can help researchers better understand the evolution of the subject, and help policymakers make better-informed decisions on investable infrastructures for better mobility outcomes in urban regeneration pursuits and future cities.

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“…To exemplify this, the urban form concept of the 15-minute city is applied. The 15-minute city focuses on ideas of function closeness and physical movement through walking and cycling Moreno et al, 2021;Allam et al, 2022;Manzini, 2022). The concept is operationalized in this paper as an inspiration that illustrates how urban planning can foster sustainable consumption practices based on "two essential components of urban life: time and space" (Moreno, 2019, n.p.…”

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Restructuring urban planning to facilitate sustainable consumption

Samson

Freudendal-Pedersen

2022

Front. Sustain.

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Food, mobility, and housing are essential and fundamental to human life. At the same time, these consumption areas have the highest climate impact. To achieve a higher degree of climate-friendly consumption, radical changes in everyday practices of food, mobility, and housing are needed. In this paper, empirical data demonstrates that time is perceived as a limited resource in everyday life which drives (un)sustainable practices. Through discussions of the perception of time and related practices, it becomes visible that urban mobility planning connects specific food and housing practices through an understanding of historical and contemporary urban planning supporting time efficiency. This indicates that rethinking urban forms and infrastructure can provide frames that can restructure everyday practices to become more sustainable. To exemplify this, the 15-minute city concept is used as a speculative example of how to restructure everyday practices and facilitate a planning approach that is aligned with sustainable consumption.

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Proximity-Based Planning and the “15-Minute City”: A Sustainable Model for the City of the Future

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

Unpacking the ‘15-Minute City’ via 6G, IoT, and Digital Twins: Towards a New Narrative for Increasing Urban Efficiency, Resilience, and Sustainability

Unpacking the ‘15-Minute City’ via 6G, IoT, and Digital Twins: Towards a New Narrative for Increasing Urban Efficiency, Resilience, and Sustainability

Research Structure and Trends of Smart Urban Mobility

Restructuring urban planning to facilitate sustainable consumption

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