An urban-planning concept in which most daily needs, work, school, shopping, healthcare and leisure, can be met within a fifteen-minute walk or bicycle ride of home. Scientist and urbanist Carlos Moreno introduced the idea in a 2016 opinion piece as an aspirational call for polycentric cities, and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo adopted it as city policy from her 2020 re-election campaign, accelerating its rollout during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Is the Fifteen-Minute City the same idea as New Urbanism?
They share a walkability goal, but New Urbanism is an older neighborhood design movement while the Fifteen-Minute City is a newer, city scale planning framework for existing cities.
They share the goal of walkable, mixed use neighborhoods, but they are not the same movement. New Urbanism, developed in the United States from the late 1970s through the 1990s, is a design movement with a detailed physical vocabulary for building new, walkable, mixed use neighborhoods, developed by practitioners such as Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. The Fifteen-Minute City, introduced by Carlos Moreno in 2016 and adopted as policy in Paris from 2020, is a broader planning framework aimed at retrofitting existing cities so that daily needs sit within a short walk or bike ride, without prescribing a particular architectural style. New Urbanism designs neighborhoods from the ground up; the Fifteen-Minute City reorganizes access across a city that is largely already built. The two are allied and often cited together, but they are not interchangeable.
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Walkability is the underlying quality the Fifteen-Minute City model is designed to maximize at neighborhood scale.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: 15-minute city, Moreno and the 15-minute city
Professor Carlos Moreno's 2016 opinion piece in La Tribune business magazine introduced the 15-minute city concept as an aspirational call for future cities to be polycentric and to fulfill several essential functions within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from their dwellings such as living, working, and leisure.
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Associated With: New Urbanism, 15-minute city, introduction sectionQuote, Associated With: New Urbanism, 15-minute city, introduction section
In recent times, it builds upon similar pedestrian-centered principles found in New Urbanism, transit-oriented development, and other proposals that promote walkability, mixed-use developments, and compact, livable communities.
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