Shrink the City
The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future
Seiten
2024
The Experiment LLC (Verlag)
978-1-891011-89-4 (ISBN)
The Experiment LLC (Verlag)
978-1-891011-89-4 (ISBN)
“[Shrink the City] surveys ways in which cities around the globe have created compact neighborhoods where residents’ daily needs are quickly accessible on foot or by bicycle—a concept known as the 15-minute city. . . . deeply researched and winsomely written. . . an invaluable overview of the cutting edge of urban planning.”—Publishers Weekly
Cities define the lives of all those who call them home: where we go, how we get there, how we spend our time. But what if we rethink the ways we plan, live in, and move around our cities? What if we didn’t need a car to reach the grocery store? What if we could get back the time we would have spent commuting and put it to other uses?
In this fascinating, carefully researched and reported book, longtime Financial Times journalist Natalie Whittle investigates the 15-minute city idea—its pros, cons, and its potential to revolutionize modern living.
From Paris, Melbourne, and Rotterdam to Charlotte, North Carolina, and Tempe, Arizona, cities worldwide are being guided by the 15-minute city’s ideals—with varying results. By looking at these examples, Whittle considers:
what really happens when a city expands bike lanes and pedestrian areas—and disincentivizes long commutes
which approaches to building affordable housing are actually effective
how neighborhoods of varying wealth are affected by 15-minute city policies
whether it’s possible to convince car-owning city dwellers to replace their vehicles with other forms of transport.
This timely book serves as a call to reflect on our cities and neighborhoods—and it outfits us with insights on how to make them more sustainable, safe, and welcoming.
Cities define the lives of all those who call them home: where we go, how we get there, how we spend our time. But what if we rethink the ways we plan, live in, and move around our cities? What if we didn’t need a car to reach the grocery store? What if we could get back the time we would have spent commuting and put it to other uses?
In this fascinating, carefully researched and reported book, longtime Financial Times journalist Natalie Whittle investigates the 15-minute city idea—its pros, cons, and its potential to revolutionize modern living.
From Paris, Melbourne, and Rotterdam to Charlotte, North Carolina, and Tempe, Arizona, cities worldwide are being guided by the 15-minute city’s ideals—with varying results. By looking at these examples, Whittle considers:
what really happens when a city expands bike lanes and pedestrian areas—and disincentivizes long commutes
which approaches to building affordable housing are actually effective
how neighborhoods of varying wealth are affected by 15-minute city policies
whether it’s possible to convince car-owning city dwellers to replace their vehicles with other forms of transport.
This timely book serves as a call to reflect on our cities and neighborhoods—and it outfits us with insights on how to make them more sustainable, safe, and welcoming.
Glasgow-based writer and editor Natalie Whittle is a freelance contributor to the Financial Times, where previously she held editing roles across the magazine and arts sections of FT Weekend for fifteen years. She founded Outwith Books, an independent bookshop and writing space in Govanhill on Glasgow’s Southside that was open from 2019 to 2022.
UK edition contents
Preface: What is a 15-minute city?
Introduction: The way we move forward
A tale of several Parises
Handlebar utopia
Cycling to what? Walking to what?
Live and die localT
he new Victorians
Time and the city
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Selected references and bibliography
About the author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 198 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-891011-89-8 / 1891011898 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-891011-89-4 / 9781891011894 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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