15 Minute City

Basics

• A Concept in Urban Planning where all of one’s necessities are within a 15 minute commute
  • Double check if it’s including Mass Transit or just Walking/Biking

Internal Links

• Complete Streets

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on 15 Minute Cities
• The 15 Minute City Project’s Website
• A National League of Cities Article from 2023 Titled “ Exploring the 15-Minute City Concept and Its Potential for Communities of All Sizes”
• An Article in “The Bulwark” titled “Who’s Afraid of the 15 Minute City”
• A CNU Article Titled “Defining the 15-minute city”
• An NPR Segment from 2023 Titled “ It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs”
• An Article in the Journal Transport Research Procedia Titled “ The 15-minute city: interpreting the model to bring out urban resiliencies”
• An Article in Reuters Titled “15-minute city’ is an urban planning concept that promotes easy access to essential amenities” (Article is mainly Fact Checking the Conspiracy Theories)
• A 2024 Paper Titled “Classifying 15-minute Cities: A review of worldwide practices“
• An Article Titled “New Jersey State Policy Lab” Titled “ 15-Minute Neighborhoods: Lessons from Outside New Jersey”
• [http://www.gdrc.org/u-gov/15mts/15-01.html A Global Development Research Center Titled “The 15-minute City

Definitions of a 15-minute City: Laying Out the Boundaries” ]

• A 2023 Euronews Article “What is a '15-minute city' and how will it change how we live, work and socialise?”