“The 15-minute city (FMC or 15mC) is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city.
This approach aims to reduce car dependency, promote healthy and sustainable living, and improve wellbeing and quality of life for city dwellers.”
The quote/explanation should be in the sidebar of this community. Glad this was pinned to the top, regardless.
One issue with these kinds of bicycles is that many designated bicycle lanes are obstructed by poles or similar to avoid mopeds and cars driving there in the first place.
I would wish for a public swimming pool / public indoor swimming pool closer by, but I have everything else mentioned in this thread already in my neighborhood, so that’s the one thing I have not in reach of 15 minutes, but need 45 minutes with public transport and as long by car (which I don’t have).
I prefer a bus over this. I can get on the bus in front of my house, leave it somewhere, go shopping/to work and enter the bus at the end of my shopping tour, while with this, I would still have to walk back to where my thingy is, carrying what I have bought and thingy would take space up while parking in the city, while the bus is constantly moving. If we talk about the 15 Minute City (which I already life in, with a bus every 5-10 Minutes) , something like this is overkill for most people and too small/not suited for professional delivery. Currently I pay 49 Euro/month for the bus and other public transport and this is 6.000 - 10.000 Euros.
To me that’d be a hardware store, a pharmacy, some kind of a public park/garden, a library and shops for groceries/postal services, and access to basic health care. Luckily I already live in such a neighbourhood; as this applies to most european towns (I grew up in a small town and now I’m living at one with 70k inhabitants).
Here in Germany you can buy slightly larger electric micro cars, with a speed limit of 45km/h and 60+km range for a 6000€ or so. There are even a good number of different manufacturers to choose from, althou they are all Chinese.
I actually live in this already. In 15 minutes I can get to: groceries, pharmacies, school, daycare, after-school club, library, postal services, train station, bus routes, mechanic, restaurants, public pool, hairdresser, hardware store, our general practitioner. The hospital is also within 15 minutes but that’s kind of random. Just a little outside that range is a shopping center.
Unfortunately i work further away but my husband walks to work.
Pharmacy - both for prescriptions and for general over-the-counter stuff. Being able to walk to ours has been great.
Hardware store - our closest is a drive or train ride away.
Library, there’s a ton of good resources available even beyond book and movie rentals.
In an ideal world, some kind of makerspace would be awesome - if just to access tools I don’t have and talk over my projects with someone. Even better if we could set up some kind of lumber swap shed - a lot of usable wood from people’s projects, construction seconds etc, gets thrown away around here, and I can only store so much. I think this one is big if we want to encourage people to fix things rather than throw it out and buy new.
When we were walking distance to a local movie theater, that turned out to be a highlight of living there but it’s definitely more of a luxury.
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