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Towards the 15 minutes walkable city: reinventing mobility and urbanism
The world is facing unprecedented challenges. A recent pandemic, shrinking natural resources, environmental damage or social inequalities are just some of the duels that humans aim and need to solve in the short, mid and long term. In an era when more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities and more than 80% of the global GDP is generated in urban centers, urban areas are becoming even more essential in society [1]. These urban areas are evolving very fast to cope with populations’ exponential growth and rapid changing climate conditions [2]. By 2050, it is expected that 7 out of 10 people in the world live in cities [3]. Cities are growing in size and complexity, with an increasing rhythm of change in order to address the citizens’ needs [4]. The City Science (CS) Group at the MIT Media Lab focuses on understanding urban performance and live-work balance of communities. In parallel, the CS Group develops interventions that foster more livable urban ecosystems. The CS Group envisions cities composed of resilient communities, designed to address today’s great challenges (e.g., public health, global warming, equity, sustainability [5]). There is a potential to overcome these challenges by designing wellbalanced communities, which the CS Group believes are based on three main aspects [5]: (1) live-work symmetry, with the availability of housing matching the local jobs in a community, vastly reducing transportation needed, (2) local access to assets, so people in the community find everything they need in a walkable distance and transport can be covered by ultra-lightweight vehicles, and (3) local production of resources, with communities being able to generate renewable energy, process waste, purify water and produce fresh food. These concepts come together in the idea of the 15 minutes walkable city, already publicly proposed by Kent Larson (director of the City Science Group) in 2012 [6]. In order to meet those three conditions, innovative technologies, designs, and public policies are to be ...
Towards the 15 minutes walkable city: reinventing mobility and urbanism
The world is facing unprecedented challenges. A recent pandemic, shrinking natural resources, environmental damage or social inequalities are just some of the duels that humans aim and need to solve in the short, mid and long term. In an era when more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities and more than 80% of the global GDP is generated in urban centers, urban areas are becoming even more essential in society [1]. These urban areas are evolving very fast to cope with populations’ exponential growth and rapid changing climate conditions [2]. By 2050, it is expected that 7 out of 10 people in the world live in cities [3]. Cities are growing in size and complexity, with an increasing rhythm of change in order to address the citizens’ needs [4]. The City Science (CS) Group at the MIT Media Lab focuses on understanding urban performance and live-work balance of communities. In parallel, the CS Group develops interventions that foster more livable urban ecosystems. The CS Group envisions cities composed of resilient communities, designed to address today’s great challenges (e.g., public health, global warming, equity, sustainability [5]). There is a potential to overcome these challenges by designing wellbalanced communities, which the CS Group believes are based on three main aspects [5]: (1) live-work symmetry, with the availability of housing matching the local jobs in a community, vastly reducing transportation needed, (2) local access to assets, so people in the community find everything they need in a walkable distance and transport can be covered by ultra-lightweight vehicles, and (3) local production of resources, with communities being able to generate renewable energy, process waste, purify water and produce fresh food. These concepts come together in the idea of the 15 minutes walkable city, already publicly proposed by Kent Larson (director of the City Science Group) in 2012 [6]. In order to meet those three conditions, innovative technologies, designs, and public policies are to be ...
Towards the 15 minutes walkable city: reinventing mobility and urbanism
2022-09-01
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